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Happy Pi day y'all!

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I've been listening to various radio shows on tomorrow's special day...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/13/392637619/making-pies-for-pi-day-think-inside-the-circle

... including the suggestion you should set your alarm clock tomorrow 3/14/15 to 9:26 am

making it 3.1415926 which are the 1st 8 numbers of an endless list of numbers.

Here's the same guy with the first MILLION digits of pi spread out on a runway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3cEKZiLmg

Interestingly enough, the numbers aren't evenly represented in Pi. IIRC from the radio show, the #1 number in the Pi calculation is actually the #5.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3cEKZiLmg[/yt]

And does anyone really think I can start a topic like this without referencing this scene from TOS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab6ohaNKjbs

Thank-you, Mr. Spock.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab6ohaNKjbs[/yt]
 
And of course DD-MM-YY is the more widely used date format. The date format is another instance like metric where the USA is in the minority.
 
50 neat facts about pi.

http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/07/03_pi.html

I like the one about Einstein #30 :bolian:

#15 is out of date.

The new record for memorizing pi is 67890 done by Chao Lu of China in 2005.

http://www.pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/details/luchao.html

It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes. :borg:

I wonder if he even stopped reciting during his bathroom breaks... its not like there would be anything special to remember where he left off.

Oops...

http://www.pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/details/luchaointerview.html

Let me correct myself.

NO food breaks.

Which was a good thing since there were NO bathroom breaks. :eek:

He was only allowed 15 seconds between numbers.

Here's a vid that agrees with you about the arbitrariness of celebrating pi. :vulcan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E9m6yDEIj8

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E9m6yDEIj8[/yt]
 
Im with her up till the end. Today is not fundamentally different than any other day as every day becomes today.

Id say you start the year at either the farthest point or the nearest point to the sun and go from there.
 
RoJoHen said:
Not according to any time-keeping device I have in my life.
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Not even kitchen appliances? My oven and microwave only have 24 hour clocks, which I prefer anyway. The only 12 hour clocks in the house are the analogue ones.
 
Since I said literally, I must mean nothing else than the lexicographical order between the words as written, in the Latin alphabet. As everyone knows, Tea comes after Pee. Maybe. But Tau day also happens to come after Pie day. To people who write the date in the correct way, at least.

Speaking of correct way and lexicographical ordering, America might be the only crazy place in the world to use middle endian dates (what are you people smoking?), but the little endian dates used by the rest of the world are not much less crazy. The only true date format is ISO 8601, where dates always come lexicographically one after another. Come on, 6.28 > 3.14 must be true, regardless if that's a date, a number or my email password.

And yes, before you ask, I do imply that anyone who doesn't write "T" in the middle of their date is crazy. :p
 
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