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[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And all this time, I thought it was the cake that was a lie...

while sly PI stole my mind into infinite cries

of WHY CAN'T IT JUST BE 3.1415???!?!!

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago

I guess I did it wrong, I drove out to a country diner and bought a slice of foot-high chocolate meringue pie.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m American, but observe on July 22nd.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Far from it, but I like that 22/7 is numerically closer.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Pi day is a fake holiday created by people who don't know how to format dates. Also, relevant xkcd.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)

DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.

MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. I prefer hyphens to improve readability

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Luckily for you that's the iso standard haha

I wouldn't mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don't believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.

You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you're an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).

The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.

Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

TIL XKCD has a mobile site

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ISO format is the only correct way to format dates.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Aw yeah! UTC gang!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago

If you want a computer to sort dates in a sane manner, year-month-day is the only option. Anything else is madness.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

Biggest to smallest - makes it easy to sort by date for things like folders of photos. And other things, I’m sure.

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[–] fogelmensch@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I think this joke has gone full circle.

Shit and I just ordered a new order of operations

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Loved the joke, but I'm distracted. There are cabinets below the white board and storage space above. What is done with the extra space behind the whiteboard? I'm picturing like storage or cubbies in the next classroom over or something?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

The whiteboards are on sliders or hinges to access shelving behind.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It'd be wild if the staff can store stuff behind the whiteboards.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pie are squared? No, pie are circled!

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Pie are round. Cornbread are square!

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jesse, we need to calculate.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

You can never trust Big Number.

They keep trying to make laws without going through Congress or the Senate.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pi=4

they have taken us for absolute fools

[–] Spider2013@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We should just call it four, or pi? One two three pi

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We celebrate tau day in this household

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 day ago

The version I like better for some reason: Pi day is just a fake holiday created by big math to sell more formulas.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Pie was never meant to be commercialised!

(Also come on guys, please stop shortening it to 'pi'. We're not restricted by '90s SMS length any more!)

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only real pi day was in 1592. Everything else is just temporal appropriation

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This doesn't work with the DMY format and cannot be accepted.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well DMY format is no fun, then!

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago
[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you think this is bad, how about the fact that Americans only have one math!

The time has come to stop the greedy hoarding of maths by Europeans. Let's open up our hearts and donate another math or two to these poor unfortunate souls.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We tried coming up with some new math so that we'd have more than one, but it was met with significant pushback.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Lehrer explained it so poorly it put people off.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

It was starting to change under Biden, but Trump put tariffs on importing math.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

It's mathmagic!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

"One math, please!"

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

developed in a math lab

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