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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.

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guido wugi