From 094eb639f7f2a399e15342987ecc589bfb8bdbbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cassie Jones Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:26:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add a pi day post --- posts/2025/pi-day.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/2025/pi-day.md diff --git a/posts/2025/pi-day.md b/posts/2025/pi-day.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cee919e --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2025/pi-day.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: "Happy Pi Day 2025" +author: Cassie Jones +date: "2025-04-13 20:26:20 America/Los_Angeles" +--- + +Happy Pi Day! + +It is once again March 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! + +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. + +Which is also a tau day, coincidentally. + +I am making apple pie and pizza today. +Have a nice day y'all. + +[1] I just barely did this one from memory, I had to look the others up. -- 2.47.0