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I have a Daughter who was born on Pi day. When she was little. she would tell you it's the second most important day, right after Christmas. Pi Day actually became a school wide fun day because of her, (small rural schools can be fun that way). We would bring a couple of pies for her math class to celebrate. Oddly, she much prefers a strawberry cheese cake for her birthday over pies.
I suspect she will NOT allow the change...........
Not very odd. It's traditional to use a cake for bday instead of pie.
But Pi Day doesn't end with the day. There can be Pi Hour, Pi Minute, Pi Second, Pi Milisec...
Do NOT give my one Daughter anymore ideas than she already has!
Fun fact: 355/113 = 3.14159...
Close enough to pi so that using it for calculating the earth's circumference from its diameter is accurate to within 3 meters.
The engineer in me wants to tell you round it up to 3.5 just to be safe. Maybe even 4 might be better...........
... or to within π meters?
I chuckled
That's nice and helps remember it's 22/7. Americans can have their 14th of March, and let 22/7 be the international pi day.
You'd confuse the Americans.
Pretty sure that iso standard of yours specifies using what you call military time, or 24 hour time system, which USA doesn't use widely, so even they don't use this standard
What are you even talking about?
Most countries use a 24hr clock
Many countries that use a 24hr clock don’t even use ISO8601 officially.
The only countries I know officially use ISO8601 are certain East Asian countries.
I don’t think they even use ISO8601 in the US Military.
Half the fucking world would beg to differ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country#Usage_map
Speaking as someone from a blue country on that map. Most of the world is wrong though. The ISO standard is designed that way for a reason. Not putting the largest unit first is just silly.
Shame there isn't a 31st of April then, could make it extra wrong.
I don't mind having an excuse to get ourselves a new calendar system :P
Yeah count me in, 14.3 doesn't make any sense for a πday
Well, you could do the 31st of April, but it seems the universe disagrees with your date format.
But I don’t wanna bake in late July
How about March Fourteenth as "American PI-Day" and 22.07. as "international, sensible and widely understood PI-Day", each according to the used date format?
"widely understood" maybe in certain circles hehe
22/07 is already known as "Pi Approximation Day"
A third excuse for pi, you say? I think it suits it.
It's close, but the math checks out.
Why have one pi day when you could have 2?
We should have approximately 3 pi days
I propose that during a 113 day period we have exactly 355 pi days. That would be an avrage of 3,14159 pi days per year
More like π days per day
One for sweet pies, one for savoury.