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(@dave-ingram)
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Well, actually twice in one day if you're on a 12 hour clock, but it is a rare event.

 
Posted : March 6, 2015 3:36 am
(@a-harris)
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Many times counting all the different time zones.............

 
Posted : March 6, 2015 3:57 am
(@shawn-billings)
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Ah good point Dave. I teach my daughter mathematics. We both love pie. We'll be eating some pie about 930 next Saturday morning... and maybe next Saturday night since you brought up 12 hour clocks.

 
Posted : March 6, 2015 4:34 am
(@brad-ott)
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I am gonna stand up and yell "PI DAY !!" at the boys basketball game that Saturday morning at 9:26:53 am.

Do you suppose this is the Pi apocalypse?

 
Posted : March 6, 2015 5:08 am
(@skwyd)
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We planned a BBQ and Game Day with some friends without even thinking about the fact that it will be Pi Day. But I think we are planning to eat cake...

Also, it is unfortunate that most of the rest of the world can't celebrate this since they use a different date format (14/03/15) for that day.

 
Posted : March 6, 2015 4:17 pm
(@jim-frame)
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It's been a couple of years, but my son used to have it memorized out to almost 200 decimal places.

 
Posted : March 6, 2015 8:11 pm
(@bill93)
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:good:
My wife's workplace celebrates it because of a math major who used to work there. I think it's a bunch of nonsense just exactly because of the format problem.

The only proper date format is from large unit to small unit. Since there is such a mix of formats in use, I always write out the month in letters, not numbers. The exception is when I add a date to a filename for backup purposes, where I don't have to worry about anybody else's format and that makes it sort well.

 
Posted : March 7, 2015 8:05 am