Unlike last year, this year March has not been a slow month in Debate (I wonder why?). But maybe we all need to lighten up a bit, so I'm going to post another thread in honor of Pi Day anyway.
Vi Hart poses the question: is Pi Day this year (3/14/16) a better Pi Day than last year's (3/14/15), or vice versa? 3.1416 is closer to pi than 3.1415, but 3.1415 has more of the digits of pi than 3.1416. So what do you think? Are you a soulless grinder who only values numbers for their brute function and has no appreciation for what they represent, or a flighty ivory tower dreamer who prefers meaningless precision over what actually works?
And to all you foreign wags who want to say that today is 14/3, not 3/14, get out of here. You guys don't even get a Pi Day, since there's no 31st of April. You're just jealous.
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If we're to extrapolate the formatting to a true moment, then arbitrary number to date & time format must be specified.
If 3 is the month, then our number system can't go over 12 (unless we're willing to use modulo)
If 14 is the date, then our number system has to end at .31 (sometimes)
And if those things are true, then "15129..." must represent the next smallest thing, which is time within a day. At this point we have to figure out what we're counting and how we're counting. Is 15 the number hours into the day? And then 12 is the number of minutes, and 9... seconds, and then deci, centi, milli seconds?
If this is the case, which seems likely, then the Pi Moment already passed for most of us. It happened at around 3:12 pm and 9 seconds.
While you were busy looking up a way to argue about a single digit, you missed your moment of pi. Sometimes its better to not argue and simply be happy. So, in that vein happy pi day.
All of which proves that once again we Europeans have got it correct. And the one true Pi day is 22/07.
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Restricting pi to a year means never being able to celebrate pi "day" again. Since we call it pi "day" it should be a specific day of every year. So you're wrong, and so are the people who think it was last year or this year.
I thought it was less whether one was Pi Day as opposed to the other, and more a question of which Pi Day was the better Pi Day
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I thought it was less whether one was Pi Day as opposed to the other, and more a question of which Pi Day was the better Pi Day
Yeah, it's just a relative quality thing. Clearly the best Pi Day was 3/14/1592. (Or was it 3/14/1593? And then there's the whole Julian/Gregorian calendar issue...)
I'm an engineer, so for me pi day is every year's 31st of April. Which has the rather annoying downside of not existing, so we'll just approximate it as the 1st of May.
1.5? I've seen worse approximations.
...actually I haven't.
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I'm an engineer, so for me pi day is every year's 31st of April. Which has the rather annoying downside of not existing, so we'll just approximate it as the 1st of May.
1.5? I've seen worse approximations.
...actually I haven't.
At least the Biblical measurements that suggest a value of 3 for Pi can be attributed to the general lack of fractional cubits.
Vi Hart poses the question: is Pi Day this year (3/14/16) a better Pi Day than last year's (3/14/15), or vice versa? 3.1416 is closer to pi than 3.1415, but 3.1415 has more of the digits of pi than 3.1416. So what do you think? Are you a soulless grinder who only values numbers for their brute function and has no appreciation for what they represent, or a flighty ivory tower dreamer who prefers meaningless precision over what actually works?
And to all you foreign wags who want to say that today is 14/3, not 3/14, get out of here. You guys don't even get a Pi Day, since there's no 31st of April. You're just jealous.
candidus inperti; si nil, his utere mecum.
(mtg salvation doesn't support Latin characters so I can't type pi)
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I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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All of which proves that once again we Europeans have got it correct. And the one true Pi day is 22/07.
- H.L Mencken
I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Crafters' Rules Guru
candidus inperti; si nil, his utere mecum.
I thought it was less whether one was Pi Day as opposed to the other, and more a question of which Pi Day was the better Pi Day
Yeah, it's just a relative quality thing. Clearly the best Pi Day was 3/14/1592. (Or was it 3/14/1593? And then there's the whole Julian/Gregorian calendar issue...)
candidus inperti; si nil, his utere mecum.
But now I do want some pie. I wonder if there's any place around that delivers...?
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...actually I haven't.
candidus inperti; si nil, his utere mecum.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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