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    From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 14 18:04:02 2024
    Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh wugi:

    Just in case anyone missed it, but today is π-day.

    My habit is to read US dates in a weak version of boustrophedon, so with 3/14/2024 I start reading the fourteen, then the three, then the 2024. I haven’t managed to shift mental gear to read them as an authentic estadounidense does. What do you do?

    Dunno if this could be considered a literary day, but you'd need all existing
    and non-existing books in the world to overwrite them with π's decimal expansion or what's it called.
    Yet in principle one could serve π-pie at exact π-time, day-hour-second-etc-wise.

    And with the difficulty of measuring very small differences in time, and the inherent coarseness in time of the act of serving pie, with current technology it is as achievable as it ever will be.

    --
    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
    (C. Moore)

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  • From wugi@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 14 22:00:03 2024
    Op 14/03/2024 om 19:04 schreef Aidan Kehoe:

    Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh wugi:

    > Just in case anyone missed it, but today is π-day.

    My habit is to read US dates in a weak version of boustrophedon, so with 3/14/2024 I start reading the fourteen, then the three, then the 2024. I haven’t managed to shift mental gear to read them as an authentic estadounidense does. What do you do?

    We in Europe read it 14/3/2024.
    And as I just saw it confirmed while reading our ng nl.taal, here we
    celebrate π-day the 31st of April, which we then rename to the 1st of
    May. It's a transcendental affair of sorts, as you can see ;-)

    > Dunno if this could be considered a literary day, but you'd need all existing
    > and non-existing books in the world to overwrite them with π's decimal
    > expansion or what's it called.
    > Yet in principle one could serve π-pie at exact π-time,
    > day-hour-second-etc-wise.

    And with the difficulty of measuring very small differences in time, and the inherent coarseness in time of the act of serving pie, with current technology
    it is as achievable as it ever will be.

    Write you are, rong it can't get.

    --
    guido wugi

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 15 07:00:26 2024
    Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh wugi:

    [...] And as I just saw it confirmed while reading our ng nl.taal, here we celebrate π-day the 31st of April, which we then rename to the 1st of May. It's a transcendental affair of sorts, as you can see ;-)

    Elegant!

    --
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    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
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  • From wugi@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 15 12:27:45 2024
    Op 15/03/2024 om 8:00 schreef Aidan Kehoe:

    Ar an ceathrú lá déag de( mí Márta, scríobh wugi:

    > [...] And as I just saw it confirmed while reading our ng nl.taal, here we
    > celebrate π-day the 31st of April, which we then rename to the 1st of May.
    > It's a transcendental affair of sorts, as you can see ;-)

    Elegant!

    Even more than I thought: 31/4 -- 1/5... (3.1415...)

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    guido wugi

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  • From wugi@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 18 12:18:01 2024
    Op 17/03/2024 om 21:28 schreef HenHanna:
    wugi wrote:

    Just in case anyone missed it, but today is π-day.
    Dunno if this could be considered a literary day, but you'd need all
    existing and non-existing books in the world to overwrite them with
    π's decimal expansion or what's it called.
    Yet in principle one could serve π-pie at exact π-time,
    day-hour-second-etc-wise.
             did anyone do anything with  CADAE...  ?


     they also celebrate  the 6-28  day.         (FW has 628 pages)

      i'm  Pi-lingual. --  i suppose this is common for ppl here, at Sci.Lang

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    Pi Day (March 14th)

    Celebrates the mathematical constant pi (π), which represents the ratio
    of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

    The date (3/14) reflects the first three digits of pi (3.14).

    Popular ways to celebrate include eating pie (a delicious pun!),
    memorizing decimal places of pi, and attending pi-themed events.

    Pi-lingual == A play on words combining "pi" with "multilingual."
    [...]

    I'd expect '... with "bi-lingual".'

    Let's celebrate some more math days, eg:

    Thue-Morse [or Abba] days (and dates) of the form
    ab/ba, or
    ab/ba/baab.
    And
    4/12
    (Am. or Eur.;) for their (and Prouhet's) constant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prouhet%E2%80%93Thue%E2%80%93Morse_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%E2%80%93Morse_sequence

    My ("Thue-Morse") "Fraktet" BTW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGZ2aG_yviU&list=PL5xDSSE1qfb6ybEuZ5XWxpKUIFKdO9rK7&index=13

    Also Piano Day
    29/03 (or 03/29),
    the 88th day, incidentally my birthday (maybe that's why I like playing
    some :o).
    Oh bother, this year it's
    28/03.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day

    --
    guido wugi

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