[lug] Happy Pi Day 2012

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

And don't forget Mad-Hatter Day. <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ari/madHatter.html>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:17 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>wrote:

> Choosing celebration dates based on visual (pi Day) or audial (Star Wars
> Day) similarity to the thing being celebrated seems to make sense, even if
> the ratios of value for positional variables bear little similarity, as in
> this case, where one is a date with a varying number of increments in the
> lesser symbol position (but approximately 30), and the other has
> consistently 10 increments in each lesser position.
>
> "(whatever) day", in this case, as in most, is a foreshortening of the
> "the day of each year on which we celebrate (whatever)" so it doesn't make
> sense to add the year to the representation.
>
> It is sufficient for our purposes to say that the exact infinitesimal
> ~moment~ of celebration of pi is that moment which matches all the digits
> of pi, using the single-digit month for the integer, the day of the month
> for the first two digits of the decimal fraction, the single-digit hour of
> a 12 or 24 hour clock by personal preference and sleeping pattern for the
> 3rd digit of the decimal fraction, the minute for 5th and 6th, second for
> the 7th and 8th, and then the decimal fraction of the second for digits of
> pi from the .
>
> --
> David L. Willson
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:45 PM, David L. Willson
> > <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> > > Happy pi Day!
> > >
> >
> > Technically, wouldn't the last Pi Day have been 3/14/1592 (four
> > hundred and twenty years ago) , and the next one won't be until
> > 3/14/15926  (thirteen thousand nine hundred and fourteen years from
> > now)?
> >
> > But that's just in America.
> >
> > If you're using the European date/month notation instead of the
> > American month/day notation, March 14 is 14/3 .  So in Europe "Pi
> > Day"
> > won't be until the 3rd day of the Dodecember (which is what the 14th
> > month would be called if there was a 14th month).
> >
> > Or July 22 ("22/7" in European date/month notation), since 22/7 is
> > the
> > most common approximation of pi in fractional form.
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