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Pi Day
- liotier 14y agoEither you celebrate Pi Day or support ISO 8601 - you can't have it both ways !
- yen223 14y agoI would support ISO 8601, but I'm not waiting for the year 3141!
- ggchappell 14y agoAnd you certainly don't want to wait for the 59th month of that year.
- LukaD 14y agoISO 8601 all the way! I'd love to have a Pi day but it just isn't possible.
- graywh 14y agoThen go for Pi approximation day: 22/7 = July 22.
- Heliosmaster 14y agoexcept it will be 2013-07-22
- graywh 14y agoRight, I was thinking prof_hobart's comment above.
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- prof_hobart 14y agoYou can have neither though. For much of the world, it's 14/3/2013 today.
- ditoa 14y agoToday is 2013-03-14 which is good enough for me :P
- leetrout 14y agoAnd a posthumous happy birthday to Mr. Albert Einstein.
- jdstraughan 14y agoPosthumous? Time is relative, after all.
- sw007 14y agoWho would have been 134 today! Created a tribute to him - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373903
- ddlatham 14y agoHappy Half Tau Day!
- winestock 14y agoYou beat me to it. For those who don't know: http://tauday.com/ http://tauday.com/
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- eranation 14y agoHappy Half Tau Day to you too http://halftauday.com/ http://halftauday.com/
- aidos 14y agoThat's shaken my very comprehension of the universe. Or rather, very much heightened my intuition of algebraic geometry. What on earth are we wasting our time with pi for!?
- testing12341234 14y agoFrom the Pi manifesto[0]: Unfortunately, the Tao Manifesto is full of selective bias in order to convince readers of the benefits of τ over π. They pinpoint formulas that contain 2π while ignoring other formulas that do not. [0] http://www.thepimanifesto.com/ http://www.thepimanifesto.com/
- ddlatham 14y agoPi Manifesto rebutted: http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-the_pi_manifesto_a_rebuttal http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-the_pi_manifesto_a_rebut...
- 3pt14159 14y agoHappy me day!
- threepointone 14y agosame to me!
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- curiousfiddler 14y agoHappy Pi Day! I have a friend we nicknamed Pi. His "hobby" at school used to be memorizing the digits after the decimal point in Pi. I remember at some point in time he could recite a few thousand. Never got the point though.
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- jdstraughan 14y agoYou may enjoy this documentary: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-boy-with-the-incredible-brain/ http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-boy-with-the-incredible-b... It is about a guy that can recite pi to incredible lengths. Very good documentary.
- curiousfiddler 14y agoJust saw the movie. Amazing!
- aaron695 14y agoAs an Australian and a mathematician I can't do Pi day, much as I'd like to. Even if the date's not ISO 8601 it's still 03/14/2013? And how does the 159265359.... work 15:92:65 ? I guess this is semi relevant http://www.xkcd.com/397/ http://www.xkcd.com/397/
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- astrec 14y agoDid you catch Jonathan Borwein's talk?
- add 14y agohttp://mashable.com/2013/03/14/pi-day-videos/ http://mashable.com/2013/03/14/pi-day-videos/
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoAs good a day as any to watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
- waivej 14y agoI'm looking forward to Pi Day in 2015.
- shanelja 14y agoRather irrelevant, but it also happens to be my birthday and "Steak & Blow Job" day. Mathematical constants, great food and sexual pleasure, not to mention presents. I am truly blessed!
- yumraj 14y agoNo google doodle :(
- _feda_ 14y agoDuck duck go has one up. http://www.ddg.gg http://www.ddg.gg
- jellyksong 14y agoSlightly tangential, but MIT decisions come out today at 6:28 (2 pi!), and last year's results were at 3/14 1:59.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoOf course in two years it will be 3/14/15 in the US, that will be fun.
- sukuriant 14y agoIt's 3.14159 though, so ... shouldn't it be 3/15/16 that we're looking for?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoThat is a good point. It's always approximate, so 3/14/16 would be the closer approximation. Harder to explain though, like all those people in 2000 who thought they were in the 21st century :-)
- e3pi 14y agoA surd of Lisp? Found this yesterday: Are There Things-in-Themselves By Dr. Paul Carus Title: The Surd of Metaphysics 1903 without heirs to her fathers was gathered, Here at the auctioneer's "things-in-themselves" will be sold. ................. Vorwort: The relation between the circumference and the diameter of the circle is quite definite and concrete, but if expressed of a numerical fraction its value can only be approximated, admitting of an infinite progress in accuracy. So the world is determinable and science is reliable in spite of the fact that her work can never be finished, and however much we progress and advance in the solution of life's problem, we can never reach the end. But this condition of things is not depressive to a healthy mind. On the contrary, it is an elevating idea that the source of knowledge will never run dry, and that the waters of life are inexhaustible. -Paul Carus 110 years ago (note: of Carus Mathematical Monographs, MAA)
- Angostura 14y agoAs a Brit, I'm confused.
- qeorge 14y ago<shameless plug> If you happen to be in the St Louis area and like pie, my aunt is selling Pi day pies today. Fresh made and delivered. http://www.itseasyaspie.com/collections/frontpage/products/pi-day-pies http://www.itseasyaspie.com/collections/frontpage/products/p... I can attest to the deliciousness of her pies. ;) </shameless plug>
- brudgers 14y agoAnyone else in favor of merging pi day and natural log day?
- sethbannon 14y agoPi Day will be much cooler in 2015. 3/14/15 FTW.
- allsystemsgo 14y agoProposed to my now wife on Pi day. Had no idea it was Pi day when I was doing it. Made the day even better!
- jonsen 14y agoI want an i day! Well, I'll just imagine one.