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Attention! Today is World Pi Day, 22/7 or 3.14285, closer to the real value of Pi than American Pi (3.14). Please do not boost this as it confuses and annoys Americans.
@jameswallis That’s just punching down. Something as simple as an extra ‘u’ confuses and annoys Americans.
@ItsNate @jameswallis "colour" what is this crazy concept? "honour" what language is that!? "flavour" STOP SPEAKING IN TONGUES!
@jameswallis Oops! Butter fingers.
@jameswallis nope sir, in US today is 7/22 which isn’t that close to pi...
@grabbi_it @jameswallis it's European pi day
@jameswallis 5 digits learned 60 years ago. NASA uses 15.
@jameswallis Quite.
Happy World Pi day for all except US, Iran, China and Korea!
@jameswallis This American is not annoyed. Boosted!
@jameswallis
Those of us in the US who start our 3/14 #Pi day celebration at 1:59 win (admittedly a small minority - I can't get anyone at work to go along with it). Still I will happily celebrate World Pi Day.
@jameswallis@dice.camp
::: confusion intensifies :::
@jameswallis ironically everyone who's served in the US military gets it
@Seruko @jameswallis Only the US military getting to enjoy the date and time formats that make sense truly speaks to the discrimination within the country
@jameswallis @lisamelton Mind if we just round down to 3 to keep things clear?
@jameswallis No, I’m American, but I’m mathematically aware, and would certainly use 22/7 over 314/100 as an approximation to pi. Though, with a calculator, I usually either find the pi key or punch in 3.1415926535.
But neither is pi. So neither is Pi Day. Today is The First Number They Teach You in School to Use as an Approximation to Pi Day.
Also it has the advantage of being just a few days past my födelsedag.
@jameswallis @rossgrady for easier calculations, pi is 3. Follow me for more math hacks.
@logorok @jameswallis @rossgrady
Did you write Old Testament? Or are you an AI who merely read it?
@jameswallis Boosting it *because* it confuses and annoys Americans. Also https://youtu.be/-gI7wav_u0w
@jameswallis I'd say "get back to me on 355/113" if it weren't for τ > π compounded by ISO8601 > day/month/millisecond or whatever that was 
@jameswallis it's not closer
@jameswallis I do not see why the USA must accept the existence of irrational numbers. They are witchcraft personified!
@jameswallis @HuwPrice As an American, I think “confused & annoyed” may be our default state.
*personally, I think of 22/7 as Second Helping of Pi Day.
@jameswallis
May
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3.14159265
This is what i use, ever since hearing a mnemonic that ended in coffee. I added a digit.
@jameswallis
22/7 is way sounder that 14th of March. Ideally as calendar days represents the path of earth on its orbit we should celebrate 1 radiant day, I.e. 1/2π × 365 days
@diegor
@paoloredaelli @jameswallis @diegor fun fact, that's just February 28
@lanodan @jameswallis this. Anyone using the backwards dd/mm/yyyy is not allowed to be smug.
@jameswallis when is the Tau day tho?
@jameswallis the American pie day has one advantage though, it's Einstein's birthday (but it's also Steven Hawking's deathday, so maybe it cancels out).
@jameswallis because they do bs like MM/DD/YYYY and not what normies (DD/MM/YYYY) or professionals (YYYYMMDD,hhmmss) do...