Happy birthday, and happy Pi Day!

[vilakins]

It's also Pi Day (if you use illogically ordered American dates ;-) ), so Happy Pi Day to you all, too.



Any excuse for a pie! I'm making an apple and sultana crumble one tonight, and since "pai" in Maori means "good", I'll be having a pai pi pie! And some fractal food in the form of romanesco broccoli as part of the main course. :-D

And while we're at it, here are a couple of icons if anyone wants a geeky pie one. :-)

Comments

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

if you use illogically ordered American dates

Well, you can't have 3/14 using the other notation. And I find myself wanting to defend the American notation against the "illogical" charge, since one could argue that it's perfectly logical to write down the date in the same order it would normally be said--"March fourteenth, 2009." Or does everybody else actually say "fourteenth March, 2009"?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Increasing order (MDY) is more logical! And actually yes, we do say "the 14th of March". :-)

I had to explain why it was Pi Day to people who know the date as 14-3-09 though.

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

Americans do say "the 14th of March" too, but not usually when saying the year as well. I'll grant that DMY (which is what you meant, yes?) is objectively more logical, but there is a logic behind MDY as well--it's just a different one, that of following the usual American speech pattern more closely.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Damn, I did mean DMY. :-P I was in a hurry because I was cooking dinner, which I have now eaten--including pie--and it was NUM!

I suppose our dates follow our speech patterns too, not because they go from small to large. I'd just assumed it was because it was logical. But hey.