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I thought it memorable that Stephen Hawking departed on 3.14 2018.
by eth0up 3y ago
I thought it memorable that Stephen Hawking departed on 3.14 2018.
- NeoTar 3y agoNo, since he was British he departed on 14.3
- eth0up 3y agoAmusing point. I concede, this format does have a more rational order. Your iconoclasm has broken my reverential mnemonic, but for honorable purposes. However, I will never have baked beans for breakfast, handle spotted dick, omit the phonetic k from my schedule, nor other things that would simply be going too far, however rational they may be.
- naniwaduni 3y agoIs it? It's mixed-endian with 3 inversions instead of 2.
- infinityio 3y agoIf the "correct" date encoding is 2018-03-14, is 14-03-2018 not one inversion instead of three?
- naniwaduni 3y agoYour numerals are big-endian, so the 0 of the month is a MSD than the 4 of the day, likewise the 2 of the year vs the 3 of the month.
- bsza 3y agoWhich is incidentally also Albert Einstein’s birthday.
- joshmanders 3y agoImagine being alive on March 14th, 1592 @ 6:53:58AM
- godshatter 3y agoIt would have been more interesting if he had departed on 3/14/1592, for a number of reasons, I guess. Did anything interesting happen on 3/14/1592?
- jayknight 3y agoTrinity College, Dublin was founded on the 3rd. I would say that's a rounding error, but at that time, pi was known to at least 9 digits (15 would be reached in 1593).