Matt BlazePi Day is a fake holiday that exploits a universally beloved mathematical constant to promote US-style date formats.
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It works with ISO dates also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
enmodo βοΈ π§¬ πΊπ¦ π@RandomDamage @mattblaze I'm with Daniel on this. ISO dates are the way to go and it is trivial to accept if Pi day is to be an annual day then you make the year a wild card match. "Fake holiday" problem solved.
IMO the only other valid solution would be to celebrate day 314 of each year which would be November 10th except in a leap year when it's November 9th.
Piloot@enmodo @RandomDamage @mattblaze Another solution would be to only celebrate Pi Approximation Day (22/7). After all, 3.14 is also only an approximation.
@Piloot @RandomDamage @mattblaze well everyone celebrates their birthday on an entire day which is only an approximation for an infinitely precise moment in time π
So we are discussing fractional vs decimal approximation.
Given 22/7 to six decimal places is 3.142857 that's an error of 0.001265 and 3.14 is an error of -0.001592
So in absolute terms 22/7 is 1.25% more accurate than 3.14. Not much but I guess the fractions have it.
@Piloot @RandomDamage @mattblaze meanwhile, speaking of approximations, may I introduce you in a little saying:
"How I want a drink
alcoholic of course
After the heavy lectures
involving complex functions"
count the letters in each and you get...
3.14159265358979
and that's not even the longest version. See: http://cadaeic.net/naraven.htm
@Piloot @RandomDamage @mattblaze by the way, we haven't even gotten into discussions of Tau Day... https://tauday.com/
