> I was reminded tonight that "pi Day" is coming on 3/14. That's fine, but > a little inaccurate for our kind. > > Suppose I want to gather with friends and buy a "round" or have a sector > of pie to celebrate. What's the appropriate time to honor? > Since 3/14 is not based on the value of pie but on its representational > decimal numbers (I have no problem with that), then it seems the right > time would be (to the tenth of a second) March 14 at 1:59:26.5 . Waddya > think? Does that appropriately honor the irrational spirit of the number?
Here one more alternative to your fine list of possibilities. If pi day is 3/14 then the "pi hour" of pi day could be 15.926535 o'clock, which is 15:55:35 (3:55:35 PM). Not precise enough? To the nanosecond the exact pi time of pi day is 3/14 15.9265358979323846264 h = 15 h + 55 m + 35 s + 292 ms + 325 us + 565 ns. /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
