3.1415926

15 thoughts on “3.1415926”

1. Huh?

2. 😀

3. Doesn’t work in the UK, where its 14th March!

   1. Well, it’s too bad April has only 30 days.

   2. Are you saying you couldn’t have done the exact same thing yesterday? 😀

      1. No; you misunderstand me. The date here was 14.03.2016, not 03.14.2016, so it doesn’t work. We need standardization on this, really, as I never know when I see 05.03 whether we are talking about the third of March or the fifth of May these days!

         1. There is already standardisation in the form of ISO 8601

            In this format, 14th March would be written 2016-03-14. On the grounds that we want Pi day to happen every year, we should drop the year part giving 3-14 which means that today is indeed…

            … -11 day which is not as close as 3/14 (or approximately 0.21). For Pi day, we should standardise on British date format and the 22nd July, which we were taught in school is a good approximation (4 sig. figs.) and a relatively easy fraction to handle.

            I don’t know why US Central Time should be considered for the hours minutes and seconds part, I would have thought UTC would be better, which means that JAC was several hours late.

      2. Oh, dear; I meant the fifth of March or the third of May!

4. And I notice that you were smart enough not to do this at 1:59:26 a.m.

   1. But it was 13:59:26, was it not?

      1. Exactly, he’s cheating.

5. I pointed out, last year, to over-eager celebrators that if they wanted to stop at 4 decimal places (3/14/’15), they really should wait a year, ie, until now. That 5 should’ve been rounded up to 6.

   1. I knew someone was gonna bring up the rounding problem. Just look at it as a truncation of the decimals. . .

      1. If it helps my case any, Hemant Mehta is on my side.

         1. Cute vid there. 🙂

            Good ol’ Hxmxnt!

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