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Don't be fooled by Big Math propaganda!!!

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Don't be fooled by Big Math propaganda!!!

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Pi day is a fake holiday created by people who don't know how to format dates. Also, relevant xkcd.
- ISO format is the only correct way to format dates.
  
  Aw yeah! UTC gang!
- TIL XKCD has a mobile site
- If you want a computer to sort dates in a sane manner, year-month-day is the only option. Anything else is madness.
- Biggest to smallest - makes it easy to sort by date for things like folders of photos. And other things, I’m sure.
  
  Biggest to smallest fails though for years which are smaller than the months, and for months which are smaller than the days.
  e.g. Dec 1st 2003, would be written 12/03/01 biggest to smallest
  I don't think you've thought this through, and frankly I question your mother's sexual decency.
- YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)
  DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.
  MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.
  
  Interesting. I prefer hyphens to improve readability

I think this joke has gone full circle.

Pi=4
they have taken us for absolute fools
- We should just call it four, or pi? One two three pi

Loved the joke, but I'm distracted. There are cabinets below the white board and storage space above. What is done with the extra space behind the whiteboard? I'm picturing like storage or cubbies in the next classroom over or something?
- The whiteboards are on sliders or hinges to access shelving behind.
- It'd be wild if the staff can store stuff behind the whiteboards.

We celebrate tau day in this household
- Heresy

I’m American, but observe on July 22nd.
- so you're an engineer
  
  Far from it, but I like that 22/7 is numerically closer.

Shit and I just ordered a new order of operations

Pie are squared? No, pie are circled!
- Pie are round. Cornbread are square!

The only real pi day was in 1592. Everything else is just temporal appropriation
- This doesn't work with the DMY format and cannot be accepted.
  
  Well DMY format is no fun, then!

Jesse, we need to calculate.
- Maths:

You can never trust Big Number.
They keep trying to make laws without going through Congress or the Senate.

The version I like better for some reason: Pi day is just a fake holiday created by big math to sell more formulas.

Pie was never meant to be commercialised!
(Also come on guys, please stop shortening it to 'pi'. We're not restricted by '90s SMS length any more!)

If you think this is bad, how about the fact that Americans only have one math!
The time has come to stop the greedy hoarding of maths by Europeans. Let's open up our hearts and donate another math or two to these poor unfortunate souls.
- We tried coming up with some new math so that we'd have more than one, but it was met with significant pushback.
  
  Lehrer explained it so poorly it put people off.
- It was starting to change under Biden, but Trump put tariffs on importing math.

Textbooks.

developed in a math lab

"One math, please!"

It's mathmagic!

I've been hoodwinked!

And all this time, I thought it was the cake that was a lie...
while sly PI stole my mind into infinite cries
of WHY CAN'T IT JUST BE 3.1415???!?!!
- 3.1416

I guess I did it wrong, I drove out to a country diner and bought a slice of foot-high chocolate meringue pie.

For a few brief years, there's was a men's alternative to Valentines day. "Steak & Blowjobs day" was held exactly one month later, on March 14.
I have never seen such a surge in love for mathematics since then. Women around the world who barely know what Pi represents were suddenly very aware that March 14 was Pi day.
- Women around the world probably remember that pi is nowhere near 14,3.

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