Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn’t make any sense for a πday
But I don’t wanna bake in late July
Well, you could do the 31st of April, but it seems the universe disagrees with your date format.
well yeah, there’s no 14th monthTell me you are from
the USNorth America without telling meThey could be from Canada too. We’re in that fun zone of being mostly Oxford/metric/DMY, but due to proximity and history we still use a lot of Webster/imperial/MDY. My dad is from the past so he speaks in Fahrenheit but calls it “English”. Send help.
However, saying “July 23rd” feels more natural and efficient to me than “The 23rd of July”. That translates to me writing 07/23 over 23/07. To each their own though, I’m not gonna harsh any mellows over date formatting.
Coming from somewhere with the format the other way around, we do indeed say “23rd July” without all that extra fluff. So exactly the same efficiency wise. We simply count days like we’d count other stuff. For example I definitely didn’t had my coffee fourth just now.
But “Coffee fourth”/“fourth coffee” and “23rd July”/“July 23rd” are different things. I don’t think it’s a good comparison.
With the coffees you are counting how many you’ve had. The thing being counted is explicitly stated in the phrase.
With dates, you are not counting the number of July’s. This isn’t my 23rd July, but the 23rd day of this July. The thing being counted is only implied by colloquial understanding.
So yes, “coffee fourth” doesn’t work, but that doesn’t have much bearing on how to say a date in my opinion
You’re right, but the same must be said for July 23rd. Both are abbreviating “day in the month of july” to a simple mention of the month.
At the end of the day both work, both are equally efficient, and simply come down to habit.
Yeah, that’s my thinking too. English, and language in general, is very fluid. Different regions will have different colloquialisms, and even different dialects of the same language. So long as we all understand what is meant does it really matter all that much how it was said?
The funny thing is that both “July twenty-third” and “the twenty-third of July” are common in the US.
“Cup of coffee” is a mess of a phrase if you start to actually think about it. In English, it’s genitive; in German, it’s accusative; in Spanish, it’s nominative.
as if my Florida Man posting didn’t already give it away :P
that said I have learned to prefer YYYY-MM-DD for all my cataloguing needs on computer because it sorts far more easily
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.
22/07 is already known as “Pi Approximation Day”
“widely understood” maybe in certain circles hehe
Imagine acting superior about a date format.
No need for acting when the (non-US) date format is superior
DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.
Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.
English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.
Can you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.
Addresses is the main one.
But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.
Great examples! Thanks!
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.
Why have one pi day when you could have 2?
We should have approximately 3 pi days
I propose that during a 113 day period we have exactly 355 pi days. That would be an avrage of 3,14159 pi days per year
More like π days per day
You’re forgetting tau day, June 28th. That’s 2*pi. Then we get 3 holidays.
2*pi already sounds like two holidays rolled into one!
for the greater good
3 is even better!
looks at today’s date
…darn, I did forget Tau Day. :(
Let’s get some pies and celebrate
and four pies
One for sweet pies, one for savoury.
FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR
--ISO-8601 GANG
MM-DD-YY will make you cry
“In the year 3141…”
Agreed 🗣️🗣️🗣️
That’s nice and helps remember it’s 22/7. Americans can have their 14th of March, and let 22/7 be the international pi day.
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But Pi Day doesn’t end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec…
Do NOT give my one Daughter anymore ideas than she already has!
This was waaay too low
Some very confused Americans trying to remember the names of the 13th - 22nd months.
- Undecimber
- Duodecimber
- Tredecimber
- Quattordecimber
- Quindecimber
- Sedecimber
- Septendecimber
- Duodevigintiber
- Undevigintiber
- Vigintiber
Is this some worldly date format that I’m too American to understand?
A man with an assault rifle at an island killing 77 people, many bellow 18, kinda ruined pi-approximation day in Norway.
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.
What an oddly specific trigger. I’m sure 3/14 has a tragic past somewhere too. 🤔
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.
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…
Cheesecake is pie though
Cheese cake is either a custard or Tart depending on ingredients. But it’s not a pie.
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!
Where’s the love for tau day
I was looking for you. Or someone like you. Or someone other than you.
I need a Tau advocate and you got the job.
It’s close, but the math checks out.
Yeah, that makes me want to celebrate my birthday more
You’d confuse the Americans.
