Tobias Haagen MichaelsenMar 15
Eric Eggert
Pi Day is how I remember that π is roughly 14.3!
Mar 14 at 8:14pmWeb
Show threadMassimo Artizzu 🇺🇦🔱Mar 15

@yatil In countries where days are considered smaller than months, the / is more commonly used as the date part separator. So it would be 14/3 for me, I guess!

That's also why π Day should be 22/7, which is also a better estimate than 3.14.

Show threadTommi NieminenMar 15
@MaxArt2501 @yatil I’m not sure if it's true that / is the most common separator. Have you got the statistics to prove it?
Show threadMassimo Artizzu 🇺🇦🔱Mar 15
@tomminieminen @yatil https://gist.github.com/mlconnor/1887156
Among the countries that order date parts as DMY, 57 (including India) use /, 26 use . and 5 use -
Listing of countries with their preferred date formats, ISO3166 code, ISO629-2

Listing of countries with their preferred date formats, ISO3166 code, ISO629-2 - country_date_formats.csv

Gist
Show threadTommi NieminenMar 15

@MaxArt2501 @yatil I’m getting slightly different figures, although the general trend is the same:

– initial d…
46/47(*) countries with '/'
21 with '.'
5 with '-'

– initial y…
3 countries with '/'
4 with '.'
6 with '-'

– initial M…
4 countries with '/'
0 with '.'
4 with '-'

*) 47 with India. I tried to semi-automatically exclude duplicates, so the total is 94, with Hong Kong using totally different separators. Didn’t double-check anything 😜

Show threadziviMar 15
@yatil another reason y/d/m is Wrong
Show threadnicole mikołajczyk 🔜 sesja linuksowa ➡️ piwo ➡️ gpnMar 15
@yatil i don’t even know how to calculate a factorial of 14.3
Show threadMassimo Artizzu 🇺🇦🔱Mar 15
@mkljczk @yatil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function
Gamma function - Wikipedia

Show threadMike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺Mar 15
@yatil We have proper pies in Europe