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#pie #math Thanks for coming to the flavor text, my soapbox is that Tau (2π) is BS. π/2 is just as common in math and it doesn't get it's own symbol. Thank you for coming I will be taking no questions.
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Hexrowe
Meh. Day-month-year and year-month-day are both perfectly fine formats, and dropping the year is a reasonable shorthand for most common uses.
Year-day-month or month-day-year, on the other hand...! 😣
madjo
In Europe we can celebrate pi day on 22/7, that's close enough.
bladderinfection
Nice
Hekatombe
See you on the 31st of April... Oh wait
madjo
or at 3-14... oh wait
CinnamonBunny
Dates are separated by . and decimals by , - no way we could get a pie day anyway.
Zetor
2025-03-14=2008
Merdock
I would fight you on τ. Firstly, I don't think π/2 shows up as frequently as 2π, but I don't even think the frequency is why I am in favor of τ over π. The mathematics of circles is centered around the ratio of the radius of a circle to its circumference, which is why 2π appears so often. From circles to angles to wave functions, this ratio of 2π is used because of this relationship. τ is a simpler representation of this ratio. Describing 1/4 the way around a circle as τ/4 is better than π/2.
Merdock
That being said, pi vs tau is not the biggest concern in the world, and I just finished a slice of pie in honor of pi day, so I'm not going to be too harsh on that number.
Cornflakes91
> sane date fornat
brave words from the country that cant assemble a stacking tower correctly
https://hoeller-spiel.at/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/5-13879_01_Print-1.jpg
Meyek
Happy IEP day Europe.
T3sl4co1l
If you leave off the year of the One True Date Format 2025-03-14, it makes perfect sense.
iamgnat
Everyone should just use ISO 8601 and be done with it.
Bonus, everyone gets Pi once a year.
T3sl4co1l
Plus a bonus extra accurate pi in a couple 1116 years or so!
Cobalt1
this format will also sort data in order by date all by itself, which is what makes it superior
Override9636
All Hail ISO8601
DHDragon
Actually, we simply celebrate it on the 31st of April /s
SwissScars
one of my favourite earth-daze
daychilde
I really am fucking tired of all the namecalling on unimportant shit. It's perfectly sane and logical to use a DD-MM format, and it's sane and logical to use a MM-DD format. A lot of times, you care more about the month. Otherwise people wouldn't use that.
Somehow, i have always managed to be perfectly fine understanding MM-DD-YYYY. I guess my brain is superior to those who can't imagine comprehending it. And somehow I can also do perfectly fine with DD-MM-YYYY.
Merdock
Sometimes my work uses MM-DD-YYYY, sometimes it uses DD-MM-YYYY, and sometimes it uses YYYYMMDD. The inconsistency is the most annoying thing
daychilde
That's fair - consistency is good. :)