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Why would the British have Pi day when they write the date 14/3?
by mjklin 12y ago
Why would the British have Pi day when they write the date 14/3?
- darklajid 12y agoBecause we don't have 14 month and otherwise they would never be able to celebrate this glorious occasion. (Really, the month/day format is stupid, but for novelty purposes that shouldn't matter?)
- fennecfoxen 12y agoWhy is month/day stupid? What other formats do we use in daily life where the least significant digit comes first? No, what's stupid is month/day/year. ;)
- iand 12y ago31 April is British Pi day
- ojbyrne 12y agoBecause they sometimes (and apparently historically) write 3/14: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
- iand 12y agoNo, it's never written as numbers that way. But writing March 3, 2014 is fairly common.
- david-given 12y agoThe next proper Pi Day is in a bit over a thousand years, on 3141-5-9. Of course, if you think that's a bit long to wait for, the one after that is 28000 years afterwards, on 31415-9-6. I'm looking forward to it!