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Well, next monday we can celebrate 6/28 as 2pi day or proper pi day... Just in time article.

• pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  So you're going to celebrate refactoring a mathematical constant to give a neater presentation on a day chosen based an apparently illogical ordering scheme for dates. That has to class as irony. Out of curiosity: Does anyone here genuinely believe that Pi should be the circumference÷radius and hold that dates should be written Month/Day/Year ? I've heard one reasonable defence of American date ordering based on actual priority of information (roughly: "you want the month first to broadly narrow down the locus but the year will be assumed"). But I still go with English or just [truncated] ISO dates.
  • elbrodeur 16y ago
    I use UNIX time. So there.
    • pbhjpbhj 16y ago
      I suggest you wait until Wed 8 Feb 2169 01:15:07 GMT+0000 (BST) to celebrate
  • Tiomaidh 16y ago
    I see where you M/D/Y people are coming from, but can you at least agree that "June 28, 2010" -> "[Month 6] 28, 2010" -> "6/28/2010" is at least founded in some kind of logic?
• mhartl 16y ago
  Wouldn't it be awesome if somebody already had this planned, complete with a domain name, a compelling candidate for the new constant, and even a whole freaking manifesto written just to promulgate proper pi? I for one wouldn't want to miss out on that, so if I were you I'd hint hint be watching Hacker News quite closely on June 28. ;-)