Yup, have to use that messed-up European way of expressing dates (Day/Month) instead of the more logical American method (Month/Day). They even speak it that way, saying things like “twenty-first June” instead of “June twenty-first.” Back-asswards Europeans.
hahah you’re right, I was reading Kryo’s comment and checked it with Window’s calculator which came up with 3.181818 which I thought was strange but whatever. That’s what I get for believing Windoze.
@Greg
Hey hey hey! YOU GUYS are the ones doing everything backwards! DD/MM/YYYY is how the rest of the world does things. What are you talking about calling your way “logical”? Days change more often then months, months change more often than years, it’s makes way more sense putting them in order like that. This nonsense you Americans caused by swapping the month and day is why ISO 8601 is YYYY-MM-DD to avoid all this confusion. It’s also why dates on the internet mostly use the month name instead of the month number. What is it with you Americans and formatting units? It’s like you WANT to be incompatible with the rest of the world…
July 22nd, 2010 at 3:15 am
Call me smart ass…but shouldn’t it be
“…I know that 22/7 is a much better approximation of…”
since 7/22 is approx. 0.318!
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:14 am
Well, oops… fixed it, thanks!
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:05 am
Yup, have to use that messed-up European way of expressing dates (Day/Month) instead of the more logical American method (Month/Day). They even speak it that way, saying things like “twenty-first June” instead of “June twenty-first.” Back-asswards Europeans.
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:34 pm
But 3.18 *isn’t* as close to PI as 3.14. :/
What’s more painful, nerds arguing about stuff like this or them being wrong about it when they do?
(Or is it bigger nerds correcting them in comments?)
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Yes, Trevor, but 22/7 equals 3.1428571428571429, which is a better approximation than 3.14.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:31 pm
hahah you’re right, I was reading Kryo’s comment and checked it with Window’s calculator which came up with 3.181818 which I thought was strange but whatever. That’s what I get for believing Windoze.
I guess 22/7 is .0002 closer to pi than 3.1400
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:15 pm
@Greg
Hey hey hey! YOU GUYS are the ones doing everything backwards! DD/MM/YYYY is how the rest of the world does things. What are you talking about calling your way “logical”? Days change more often then months, months change more often than years, it’s makes way more sense putting them in order like that. This nonsense you Americans caused by swapping the month and day is why ISO 8601 is YYYY-MM-DD to avoid all this confusion. It’s also why dates on the internet mostly use the month name instead of the month number. What is it with you Americans and formatting units? It’s like you WANT to be incompatible with the rest of the world…
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:09 am
it’s pretty funny, the arguments you got over the argument. good, authentic nerd banter