Pi Day!

[vilakins]

It's Pi Day (if you use illogically ordered American dates ;-) ), so Happy Pi Day to you all!

Comments

[kindkit]

if you use illogically ordered American dates

Well, you can't have 3/14 using the other notation. And I find myself wanting to defend the American notation against the "illogical" charge, since one could argue that it's perfectly logical to write down the date in the same order it would normally be said--"March fourteenth, 2009." Or does everybody else actually say "fourteenth March, 2009"?

[vilakins]

Increasing order (MDY) is more logical! And actually yes, we do say "the 14th of March". :-)

I had to explain why it was Pi Day to people who know the date as 14-3-09 though.

[kindkit]

Americans do say "the 14th of March" too, but not usually when saying the year as well. I'll grant that DMY (which is what you meant, yes?) is objectively more logical, but there is a logic behind MDY as well--it's just a different one, that of following the usual American speech pattern more closely.

[vilakins]

Damn, I did mean DMY. :-P I was in a hurry because I was cooking dinner, which I have now eaten--including pie--and it was NUM!

I suppose our dates follow our speech patterns too, not because they go from small to large. I'd just assumed it was because it was logical. But hey.

[vjezkova]

Ignorant me, but i love the pie with PI and what an idea to play - lots of others have popped in my head, so thanks for the inspiration!:-)

[vilakins]

It only works in English though! :-) What is "pie" in Czech?

[vjezkova]

In Czech it is called "koláč" /kola:tch/ and we actually make small ones, sweet, with sweet fruit or quark or poppy or a combination of these. There are of various size according to a location and they are part of tradition. I can´t make those lovely and excellent ones but I am able to make some:-)
http://images.google.cz/images?hl=cs&q=Kol%C3%A1%C4%8De&lr=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=gnm7SY_GI5KTsAbCpMDoDg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title
Mmmmmm..............

[vilakins]

Mmmm, quark and poppy seed remind me of yummy Russian ones. :-D They look like a mixture of pastries and doughnuts. [drools]

[miss_next]

Yay pi. :-D Happy Pi Day!

[vilakins]

I see you already have a pi icon! :-D

[miss_next]

I've got two. :-D

[jhall1]

:)

Now I'm wondering if anything significant happened on March 14th in the year 159. (If I'd taken it to another decimal place, I'd have been faced by the decision of whether or not to round it.)

[vilakins]

According to the Wikipedia, the closest is:
1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.

Not wildly interesting and certainly not geeky.

[vilakins]

Ahahaha, yes!

[vilakins]

I could! :-D