While musing about pumpkin-creamcheese pie I realized that I'd completely forgotten that today is Pi Day! Alas, it was already past the traditional 1:59pm celebration time.
The "ultimate" pi moment occurred on March 14, 1592, at 6:53 AM and 58 seconds. When written in American-style date format, this is 3/14/1592 6:53.58, which corresponds to the value of pi to twelve digits: 3.14159265358. However, considering this was well before any kind of standardized world time had been established, and the general public had no concept of π, the occurrence likely went unnoticed.
Here's a random funny video appropriate to the occasion:
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~eli/skiffy/Pi.mov
Happy Pi day!
Mike, you are SUCH a nerd!
DD: But apparently you either love him for it or don't particularly mind it.
Wouldn't you have to celebrate at 1:59 AM? It would come more into play if you used 24 hour time as 1:59 would leave you at 13:59, by convention getting Pi wrong as 3.141359.
Mark: You're a quick one, aren't you?
tP: That's why I said "traditional". Your way is more accurate, but who's awake then?
Bartenders, Drunks & Truckers.
Oh and people doing sewer inspections.
DD: Yup.
Indeed.