2009/3/4 Tom Van Baak <[email protected]>: >> 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.
Well, even for me it would be hard downing a pint during that nanosecond... 73, Steve -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD & JAKDTTNW Omnium finis imminet _______________________________________________ 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.
