Happy once-in-a-century Pi Day!

[Hygro]

I celebrated with a blueberry pie. It's pretty tasty, and I'll probably go grab some leftovers in a minute or two.

I only have about 30 digits of pi memorized. I memorized them in 7th and 8th grade when my math teacher had a large number of digits along the top of the wall in the classroom. Let's see... 3.141592653589798282264338327950. I figured memorizing it until every digit was present at least once was a reasonable compromise between knowing a respectable amount of pi and not spending forever memorizing it.

ICWUDT

 

[Kyriakos]

I celebrated with a blueberry pie. It's pretty tasty, and I'll probably go grab some leftovers in a minute or two.

I only have about 30 digits of pi memorized. I memorized them in 7th and 8th grade when my math teacher had a large number of digits along the top of the wall in the classroom. Let's see... 3.141592653589798282264338327950. I figured memorizing it until every digit was present at least once was a reasonable compromise between knowing a respectable amount of pi and not spending forever memorizing it.

Pretty cool and stylish reason for memorising those digits

 

[Traitorfish]

3/14/15 = 3.1415

And all it required was a date format that makes no sense.

 

[Kyriakos]

And all it required was a date format that makes no sense.

You could say it was... irrational?

 

[Arakhor]

Link to video.

 

[Kyriakos]

^

 

[Arakhor]

That deserves to be a meme in its own right. Better than a chap with dark glasses, anyway.

 

[Lohrenswald]

3/14/15 = 3.1415

3/14/15=1/70=0,0142857

I was going to put "you fool" in caps lock, but my telephone doesn't want to

 

[sophie]

And all it required was a date format that makes no sense.

How does it make no sense? It's March 14th. Who says "14th of March"? That seems unnecessarily stuffy.

 

[Kyriakos]

How does it make no sense? It's March 14th. Who says "14th of March"? That seems unnecessarily stuffy.

Being monolingual does you no favors

Saying the date prior to the month is making sense in other languages anyway. Much like saying the name of a museum after the term 'museum'.

 

[sophie]

Being monolingual does you no favors

Saying the date prior to the month is making sense in other languages anyway. Much like saying the name of a museum after the term 'museum'.

a) Definitely not monolingual.
b) Talking about English, specifically.

 

[Arakhor]

You mean US English, Owen?

I do say "March the 14th" admittedly, but if I'm listing dates, I'd say "14th to 22nd of March". I'd write "14th March" or "14th - 22nd March". Chopping out articles and conjunctions and what-have-you all over the place when you're speaking simply sounds silly to me.

 

[Kyriakos]

a) Definitely not monolingual.
b) Talking about English, specifically.

Date usage not being specific to english, Britain just had the sense in this to go with the flow of the rest of the continent/planet

Maybe they can incorporate metric too in the future.

 

[sophie]

You mean US English, Owen?

I do say "March the 14th" admittedly, but if I'm listing dates, I'd say "14th to 22nd of March". I'd write "14th March" or "14th - 22nd March". Chopping out articles and conjunctions and what-have-you all over the place when you're speaking simply sounds silly to me.

No, English in general. March 14th is the only proper way to say it. "14th March" sounds like broken English.

 

[warpus]

You don't have to write things down the exact same you say them - for example when naming file folders I will format my dates like this: year - month - day - because that sorts everything properly and makes the most sense.

 

[Traitorfish]

How does it make no sense? It's March 14th. Who says "14th of March"? That seems unnecessarily stuffy.

Well, first, the British do, the clue was "unnecessarily stuffy". But second, I'm talking about the "mm/dd/yyyy" format; it's just wonky. Month, then date, then year? That doesn't make any sense.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I say fourteenth march, done so all my life. Sometimes fourteenth in third.
A couple of days ago it was 14/3/2015, which doesn't look like pi at all.

 

[Arakhor]

No, English in general. March 14th is the only proper way to say it. "14th March" sounds like broken English.

To you it might do and that's fine, but there aren't many people agreeing with you. Besides, even we don't say "14th March", because we use little words like of in there too.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm retired and don't talk about the date. About half the time I don't care enough to know what day of the week it is.

 

[Borachio]

Well, first, the British do, the clue was "unnecessarily stuffy". But second, I'm talking about the "mm/dd/yyyy" format; it's just wonky. Month, then date, then year? That doesn't make any sense.

It doesn't, I agree. What does make sense is yyyy/mm/dd. Because then you can nicely order your documents without having to rearrange the date thing. Not that it matters, of course. Just that it would make more sense to put the bigger numbers on the left just like we do with normal counting. But we totally don't have to.