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They are the same weekday as 3/14 and it makes a little more sense than 'Doomsday', which the article chooses.
by stkdump 7y ago
They are the same weekday as 3/14 and it makes a little more sense than 'Doomsday', which the article chooses.
- netsharc 7y agoI vehemently disagree, you can't just redefine Pi-Day to what you want. Pi Day is 3/14, not 4/4 or 6/6. As for calling it Doomsday, well, it's from the title of the paper about the algorithm, by the man who invented it, the famous John Conway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
- stkdump 7y agoI didn't come up with this. According to the article, Roman Weil of Princeton teaches the same.