Mastodawn

Herr TurTur Mar 14

@mina
Oh heck, thanks for remembering!
Decent joke, by the way!

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉Mar 14

@mina Me, not understanding the joke, “but… why is 9 up-side-down?”

Peter Brown Mar 14

@mina only under the bizarre illogical US dating “system” which nobody else uses

Petra van Cronenburg Mar 14

@peterbrown I always thought that Pi is a global guy. 😎 @mina

Guy or girl?

Petra van Cronenburg Mar 14

@mina Girl-Boy-Everything-Guy, changes with every digit in the colours of a beautiful rose-blue-all-colours rainbow.

Oh!

That's lovely!

@peterbrown

Petra van Cronenburg Mar 14

@mina Yes, Pi is lovely! And this polite, *VERY* patient Sharon, too! 🤭

@peterbrown

@peterbrown same opinion & thought
@mina

Patai Gergely

Mar 14

@peterbrown @mina Everything but yyyy/mm/dd is bizarre, so Pi Day is actually okay with me.

@cobbpg @peterbrown @mina

Wilfried Klaebe Mar 15

Please... https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

YYYY-MM-DD

ISO - ISO 8601 — Date and time format

ISO 8601 is the internationally accepted way to represent dates and times.

ISO

Peter Brown Mar 15

@wonka @cobbpg @mina and writing I’m sure it works but I can’t think of saying it verbally.

“on the 15th of May 1967”
“in 1967 on May the 15th”

The first version is my default when speaking.

Patai Gergely

Mar 15

@peterbrown @wonka @mina In Hungarian it’s the only way you can say it: month first, then day. That’s simply how that language works. I just think it’s better because you don’t have to deviate from the natural way to make dates sortable. The same applies to names: they are family name first.

Kate Mar 14

@peterbrown @mina I hate MM/DD/YY but I can disregard that for the purposes of creating a day for pi.

DysguFi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Mar 14

@mina 22nd of July here 22/7

I like that!

@mina I love transcendental numbers for some reason. 💜

Shivansh Giri Mar 14

@mina Poor 6… trusted π and instantly regretted it😂

@Itsshivansh

Never trust transcendental beings!

Shivansh Giri Mar 14

@mina True! They go on forever and never repeat themselves.

Disisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸Mar 14

@mina 😄

mad_asshatter Mar 14

@mina Infinite Gesture

Dziadek Mar 14

Not in my house! We use proper British dates None of your Yankee nonsense with us.

@DziadekMick

Unfortunately, we don't have (at least) 14 months.

Dziadek Mar 14

For it to be accurate, you’d need an infinite amount of months. Which would make the third day of an infinitely short month an interesting concept.

I’m going to stop now before I start thinking about an infinite number of infinities.

@DziadekMick

Actually I'm already thinking about the topic.

Dziadek Mar 14

I’m a big fan of the Infinite Hotel mind games. About my limit now.

@DziadekMick

Hilbert has always a room for you.

Kate Mar 14

@mina @DziadekMick I suppose we could use January 3rd, but that would bring it down to only to digits. The ultimate pi day would be 3/1/4159, but I don’t expect to live long enough to get there.

@DziadekMick what , you have The 13st of March, not mm/dd ?
@mina

@DziadekMick I'm copy-paste your "Yankee nonsense" 4 my own reply🤭😉
@mina

@mina Does 6 appear like really late or "never" ?

@ZoidbergForPresident

6 is actually the 8th digit.

@mina Then I'm not sure I get the joke... :p

@ZoidbergForPresident

π is an irrational number. The digits go on forever and ever.

The poor 6 will never be able to cross the street.

@mina Ok but then... Why a 6?

@ZoidbergForPresident

I don't think, there's a deeper meaning to the choice of that number.

@mina Hence why I was lost... :p

@mina Denglisch 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 reply;

ach the Yankee nonsens, mit ihrem verdrehten Datumsformat
😀
Wobei wie die zweistelligen Zahlen umgehen, finde ich besser, als in der Deutschen Sprache

@alm10965

Bis 20 machen sie es aber wie wir.

@mina ja, und dann find ich's doof, verwirrend
Ein-und-zwanzig
vs
Twenty-one

@alm10965

Schon klar, aber Sprache ist halt nicht immer logisch.

tinu

Mar 14

@mina 🤣🤣🤣

Schade muss ich bei den Witzen immer alleine lachen, weil niemand in meinem Umfeld sie versteht.

@martin

Dafür bist du hier im Fedi.

Wir verstehen dich.

Hiker Mar 14

@mina Übrigens, ist e schon durch? @martin

no_brainer Mar 14

@Hiker @mina @martin 👍😂
Edit: „Ja, das ist aber schon unendlich lange her!“

@Hiker

e kommt erst am 2. Juli.

@martin

Hiker Mar 14

@mina
Sowas von unlogisch 🤔 @martin

@Hiker

"Offiziell" am 7. Februar, aber wenn man das US-Datumsformat vermeiden kann, sollte man es tun.

@martin

Tilai Mar 14

@mina Genial! Das ist einer dieser Witze, über die ich stundenlang lachen kann. Nenn mich platt, aber ich hab Spaß! Danke für den Post, mein Tag ist gerettet. 🥳

Richard Webb Mar 14

What an irrational cartoon.

@Fasgadh

Transcendental!

😁

jz.tusk Mar 14

@Fasgadh @mina

I was going to phrase it "Sharon soon realized that she had made an irrational choice.", but yeah 😂

Thomas Mar 14

@mina da die Nachkommastellen unendlich sind, dauert es ewig🤣😂🤣😂

Radlerin 🚴‍♀️Mar 14

@hessejames62 du weißt schon dass es irgendwie sexistisch anmutet wenn Männer Frauen ihre eigenen Witze erklären?

Paulo Brito aka porta VIII Mar 14

@mina lol

Ken Milmore Mar 14

@mina Or American Pi day as I prefer to think of it. 22nd July should really be Pi day, but it has been named Pi approximation day. Which is ironic as 3.14 is a worse approximation for Pi than 22/7.

@kbm0

Indeed!

However: I couldn't let the opportunity pass to post this cute cartoon.

Ed Davies Mar 14

@kbm0 Also ISO Pi day.