From 0474fdef2fb8e5ded830db2f8ff3605f0bf2f1a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cassie Jones Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:41:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add word breaks in long dates for pi day --- posts/2025/pi-day.md | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/posts/2025/pi-day.md b/posts/2025/pi-day.md index da7451c..575d670 100644 --- a/posts/2025/pi-day.md +++ b/posts/2025/pi-day.md @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ title: "Happy Pi Day 2025" author: Cassie Jones date: "2025-04-13 20:26:20 America/Los_Angeles" +updated: "2025-04-13 20:41:00 America/Los_Angeles" --- Happy Pi Day! @@ -11,14 +12,14 @@ In the m/d date format, that's 3/14. But what about international Pi Day? Well if you do d/m, you are out of luck, 31/4 doesn't work because April has 30 days. Luckily for everyone, the best date format is year-month-day anyway. -It's 2025-04-13! +It's ! But we're leaving off the year. Can we get a real pi day? -3141-59-26 doesn't work, 59 is absolutely not a real month. -We can get our first valid month 31 nonillion years from now, on 31415926535897932384626433832795-02-88[^1], except that months don't have 88 days. -3141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375-10-58 is also not a valid day. -In fact, you have to wait until 31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164-06-28 to get a valid pi day. + doesn't work, 59 is absolutely not a real month. +We can get our first valid month 31 nonillion years from now, on [^1], except that months don't have 88 days. + is also not a valid day. +In fact, you have to wait until to get a valid pi day. Which is also a tau day, coincidentally. -- 2.47.0