[lug] Fwd: Pi Day is coming

Bruce Long qstream at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 15:49:16 MDT 2013


My wife just pointed out that next March is pi month: 3/14.



On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:09 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>wrote:

> Great, now I have to go buy a new (very old) pocket-watch, so I can be
> even more superior and obscurier. Thanks a lot, Dr. Haemer.
>
>
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> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
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>
> David,
>
> The French Revolution implemented your suggestions.  No, not just the ones
> about beheading, the other ones, too.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar#Decimal_time>
>
> FWIW, today is the 5th of Ventose.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:54 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>wrote:
>
>> Did you mean to say that time is all powers of 60? You probably didn't,
>> but I'll take this thin excuse to rant... It's decimal fractions of a
>> second, then 60 seconds, then 60 minutes, then 24 hours, then 7 or 30'ish
>> days or 365.25 something days depending on which mutually incompatible
>> next-larger-unit you're moving to.
>>
>> The ratio of days to years probably can't be changed without damaging the
>> climate, but the rest certainly could.
>>
>> Oh, and we could just stop it with the fakey time more than half the
>> year, too.
>>
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>> David L. Willson
>> Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
>> RHCE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu
>> Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)
>>
>> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > <snip> or *all* power of 60 (like we do with time for the
>> > very reason you mention), or whatever. Instead no, sometimes is power
>> > of two, sometimes is 60, sometimes is 12 or whatnots. There is so
>> > much<snip>
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