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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours 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 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] blitzen 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Shit and I just ordered a new order of operations

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I think this joke has gone full circle.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Interesting. I prefer hyphens to improve readability

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

TIL XKCD has a mobile site

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ISO format is the only correct way to format dates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Aw yeah! UTC gang!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jesse, we need to calculate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pie are squared? No, pie are circled!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Pie are round. Cornbread are square!

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 3 points 1 day ago

You can never trust Big Number.

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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!)

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pi=4

they have taken us for absolute fools

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We celebrate tau day in this household

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Lehrer explained it so poorly it put people off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's mathmagic!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

"One math, please!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well DMY format is no fun, then!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

developed in a math lab

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I've been hoodwinked!

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