Matt BlazePi Day is a fake holiday that exploits a universally beloved mathematical constant to promote US-style date formats.
Random Damage 🌻@mattblaze
It works with ISO dates also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
BillStewart415@RandomDamage @mattblaze
The problem with using ISO 8601 dates for Pi Day is that you have to make 2023 pi's.
The problem with using ISO 8601 dates for Pi Day is that you have to make 2023 pi's.
@billstewart415 @mattblaze that's definitely a challenge :)
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Witek Kowalik@zalasur
I see it as a whole lot of goodness to eat, Dean Winchester style ;)
@billstewart415 @RandomDamage @mattblaze
I see it as a whole lot of goodness to eat, Dean Winchester style ;)
@billstewart415 @RandomDamage @mattblaze
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JdeBP@ScottAkenhead @billstewart415
Exactly. And the other date formats give even worse results when evaluated. Some people are clearly terrible at basic arithmetic. (-:
JdeBP (@[email protected])
#Programming note: 2023-03-14 equals 2006 even in the #CLanguage and #CPlusPlus, because although the leading 0 denotes octal, 03 is luckily just 3. PS C:\> 2023-03-14 2006 PS C:\> In #PowerShell, too. And for the minority date format users: PS C:\> 14/3/2023 0.00230680507497117 PS C:\> 7/22/2023 0.000157282164202579 PS C:\> These are only going to get further away from pi as the years go on. (-: #maths #pi
@billstewart415 @RandomDamage @mattblaze
... or forget what a minus sign is. (-:
JdeBP (@[email protected])
#Programming note: 2023-03-14 equals 2006 even in the #CLanguage and #CPlusPlus, because although the leading 0 denotes octal, 03 is luckily just 3. PS C:\> 2023-03-14 2006 PS C:\> In #PowerShell, too. And for the minority date format users: PS C:\> 14/3/2023 0.00230680507497117 PS C:\> 7/22/2023 0.000157282164202579 PS C:\> These are only going to get further away from pi as the years go on. (-: #maths #pi