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liotier
4838 days ago
Either you celebrate Pi Day or support ISO 8601 - you can't have it both ways !
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prof_hobart
4838 days ago
You can have neither though. For much of the world, it's 14/3/2013 today.
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graywh
4838 days ago
Then Pi approximation day: 22/7
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baddox
4838 days ago
22/7 is actually closer to pi than 3.14.
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duaneb
4838 days ago
113/355 is several orders of magnitude closer. To bad we don't have 355 months in the year.
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jlgreco
4838 days ago
For those unfamilar with 113/355:
http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/06/30/all-rational-approximatio...
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duaneb
4838 days ago
I made a silly mistake, it's (obviously) 355/113.
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yen223
4838 days ago
I would support ISO 8601, but I'm not waiting for the year 3141!
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ggchappell
4838 days ago
And you certainly don't want to wait for the 59th month of that year.
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ditoa
4838 days ago
Today is 2013-03-14 which is good enough for me :P
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LukaD
4838 days ago
ISO 8601 all the way! I'd love to have a Pi day but it just isn't possible.
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graywh
4838 days ago
Then go for Pi approximation day: 22/7 = July 22.
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Heliosmaster
4838 days ago
except it will be 2013-07-22
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graywh
4838 days ago
Right, I was thinking prof_hobart's comment above.
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