How about March Fourteenth as “American PI-Day” and 22.07. as “international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day”, each according to the used date format?
A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
Imagine acting superior about a date format.
No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
“widely understood” maybe in certain circles hehe
Fun fact: 355/113 = 3.14159…
Close enough to pi so that using it for calculating the earth’s circumference from its diameter is accurate to within 3 meters.… or to within π meters?
I chuckled
The engineer in me wants to tell you round it up to 3.5 just to be safe. Maybe even 4 might be better…
Better multiply it with a safety factor of 2.
I like the way you think.
FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR
--ISO-8601 GANG
“In the year 3141…”
Some very confused Americans trying to remember the names of the 13th - 22nd months.
- Undecimber
- Duodecimber
- Tredecimber
- Quattordecimber
- Quindecimber
- Sedecimber
- Septendecimber
- Duodevigintiber
- Undevigintiber
- Vigintiber
Shame there isn’t a 31st of April then, could make it extra wrong.
I don’t mind having an excuse to get ourselves a new calendar system :P
Pretty sure that iso standard of yours specifies using what you call military time, or 24 hour time system, which USA doesn’t use widely, so even they don’t use this standard
What are you even talking about?
Most countries use a 24hr clock
Many countries that use a 24hr clock don’t even use ISO8601 officially.
The only countries I know officially use ISO8601 are certain East Asian countries.
I don’t think they even use ISO8601 in the US Military.
Is this some worldly date format that I’m too American to understand?
But then we’d have to deal with the savage barbarism of writing it with the day before the month.
then write the year before the month before the day 😈
Always do
Going by the numbers, using DD/MM is the civilised way and MM/DD the archaic one.
A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.
What an oddly specific trigger. I’m sure 3/14 has a tragic past somewhere too. 🤔
It’s recent enough that it still haunts the people of the country. It’s also not an every day occurrence like in America.
From the wiki:
2019 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
2021 – Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.
TIL that not only is it legal to own guns in Norway, apparently you guys have a fairly high percentage of gun ownership.
Absolutely, but acquiring a weapon legally is a process involving the police and requires a sensible intent (like hunting, sports or defense against polar bears) and an approved safe storage. While there are a lot of weapons in Norway, it’s very heavily regulated.
With that said, the terror in Norway was performed with a firearm which was obtained legally with approval from the police, so the system is far from perfect.
Not in America it ain’t. Nobody fucking puts the day before the month.
Year/Month/Day is the way.
Month/Day/Year you should fear.
unless you are using ISO 8601 then i think u should…
Invalid argument as the ISO standard must include years. Not including years is just garbage
Remind me again what your national day is called?
July 4th, or the 4th OF July, or just Independence Day. No one calls it 4 July.
4th OF July,
So date first, then the month?
You don’t read 1/2 as “1slash2” do you? You read it as “half”, don’t you? You don’t read 3/4 as “three four” do you? You read it as “three quarters” or “three fourths”.
Because we know how to conjugate numbers from context. Like say you finish 3. in a race. Would you read “3.” as “three” or “third”?
(It’s quite ironic how often I end up having to teach Americans English, lol.)
say you finish 3. in a race
Who would even type it that way? When talking about position, the suffix isn’t ignored, either in text or speech.
As for fractions, they are just that; fractions. Divisible portions of a whole, so different rules apply to them. They can be in the plural sense as in two halves, or 3 quarters. But you don’t have a plural dates of the month, unless you’re counting multiple years. And in that case it’s month first. Like, if you were comparing this year to other years, you wouldn’t say “this was better than the last couple 4ths of July”. You’d say, “this was better than the last couple of July 4ths”
Who would even type it that way?
You’ve never seen people use ordinal numbers?
Never seen rankings of say, hand-egg players, put down as
- Namenamename
- Namenamename
- Namenamename
?
“Ordinal” as in “by order” rather than cardinal numbers. In the middle of a a sentence you’d write “third” preferably, but you might also use “3rd”. My grammatically wrong sentence was on purpose to demonstrate that you can — or at least should be able to — read ordinal numbers.
Just like you’d read 04.06.24 as “the fourth of July, 2024”. Well, you wouldn’t, you’d read that “the sixth of April”, but only because you’re using the stupid system for dates.
“as in two halves or 3 quarters”
Why didn’t you write “three”? Were you omitting more letters because you knew I would be able to read “3” as “three”? Yes. Good. We do that for other numerals as well, and depending on the context, you add things like “of” in between them. Where’d you get the word “quarter” when I just wrote down “4”?
Thus it’s fourth of July, not “four July”.
I have a Daughter who was born on Pi day. When she was little. she would tell you it’s the second most important day, right after Christmas. Pi Day actually became a school wide fun day because of her, (small rural schools can be fun that way). We would bring a couple of pies for her math class to celebrate. Oddly, she much prefers a strawberry cheese cake for her birthday over pies.
I suspect she will NOT allow the change…
Not very odd. It’s traditional to use a cake for bday instead of pie.
But not for Pi Day. Having taught classrooms how to calculate Pi by tossing “frozen hot dgos” and literally timing the period of the swing of an apple pie suspended from the ceiling, it’s pies or nothing!
Cheesecake is pie though
Cheese cake is either a custard or Tart depending on ingredients. But it’s not a pie.
You’d confuse the Americans.
Jokes on you, I’m too dumb to get it!
This… this is why we have no friends, brain:)
