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  1. patrickindallas

    patrickindallas Shire rat

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    Happy π     Day!!!

    I like pie.
     
    #1 patrickindallas, Mar 14, 2008
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    Also Happy birthday to Mr Einstein. Wherever or whenever he may be...
     
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  3. hyo silver

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    Enjoy the pie while you can. Tomorrow's the ides of March.
     
    #3 hyo silver, Mar 14, 2008
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    Not a very happy day for the stock market. Check out BSC (ticker). People are saying that this is the first day of the recession.
     
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    I'm wishing it was Green Day .. aka St. Patrick's Day! That's when I get my shiny new white Prius :D
     
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    OMG I didn't even get what you were talking about. This could be the geekest thread I have ever read. :first: :nerd:
     
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  9. patsparks

    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    What is Pi day?
    Surely that is the twenty-second of July or 22/07 ?
    Yes Australians write the date different to you. Today is 15/03/2008.
     
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    Bill Merchant absit invidia

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    It is now the Ides of March, patsparks. Since you're not JC, no worries. But the only sensible way of writing a date is 2008:03:15 so the day is in the least significant position. But yesterday at 3 p.m. (15:00) was kind of magical.
     
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  11. TonyPSchaefer

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    For our "uneducated Aussie" friend and anyone else stumbling across this thread in bewilderment, Pi day is March the 14th.

    Written: 3/14 in standard US nomenclature.
    Pi is 3.14

    For a true geeky experience, just wait until March 14th, 2015.
     
    #11 TonyPSchaefer, Mar 15, 2008
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    Yay, Bill! Year, month, day is the only way. Every other date format scrambles the place values. A chronometer is like an odometer - the digits have a proper order. Think 'ones, tens, hundreds...' and wonder why we would ever argue about which order they should be in. Oh, if only sense were more common.
     
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  14. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    Anytime I date stamp a file or folder, I always use the YYYY-MM-DD format because they will always auto-sort chronologically.

    And then, of course, there are those who believe that it's just as good to spell the month which always puts December before January, June and July.
     
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    Pi day is an irrational holiday.

    Tom
     
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    Actually, it would have been 1:59am, which would make it:
    3.14159 :p
     
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    I agree with Bill, If we're going to be math geeks, we should write the date in mathematical order.

    Both the US date format (MM/DD/YYYY) and the Australian/Britsh date format (DD/MM/YYYY) are irrational.

    So the one true PI day isn't for more than thousand years, on May 9th 3141

    3141.5.9
     
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    You might be right except the traditional separator is a / not a .
    Isn't 22/7 a more accurate depiction of Pi than 3.14?
    Sorry if the lack of proper book learnin is showing through.

    BTW, is it a holiday? if not who care about rationality?
     
    #18 patsparks, Mar 15, 2008
  19. TonyPSchaefer

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    You're right of course, Pat. The most commonly used separator I've seen here in the States is the / and not the .. Though I happen to work for a Swiss-German company and often see the . as the separator, but then their dates are displayed differently. So I just can't win. :confused:

    Oh and no offense intended, I was just quoting your avatar. :)

    If I were allowed to mess around with separators, I would vote for March 14th, 2015 at 9:26am so I could write 3.14.15.9:26
     
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    I like the / best too, but if you try to use it for a Microsoft File Name, Billy Gates gets frustrated with you and is not shy about letting you know
    [​IMG]
     
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