[PLUG-TALK] Time to Celebrate!

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 06:49:34AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Happy pi day to all!
>   Won't happen again in our lifetimes.

An artifact of a date numbering representation (there are many)
an arbitrary clock starting date (the "birth of christ" as chosen
by some earnest but inept clerics), fractionating the day with
sexigesimal clock notation, and a particular decimal truncation
for the year ... 2015 --> 15

In hexidecimal, pi starts out as:

3.
243F6A8885A308D313198A2E03707344A4093822299F31D0082EFA98EC4E6C89452821E638D01377
BE5466CF34E90C6CC0AC29B7C97C50DD3F84D5B5B54709179216D5D98979FB1BD1310BA698DFB5AC
2FFD72DBD01ADFB7B8E1AFED6A267E96BA7C9045F12C7F9924A19947B3916CF70801F2E2858EFC16
...

So some smart cookie could map those digits, or perhaps the octal
digits, onto our clunky calendar, too.  There are myriads of arbitrary
ways to make many different dates on many different calendars into
"pi days", with the consequence that we will all eat too much pie
too often and get diabetes.  The result may be "Won't ANYTHING
happen again in our RADICALLY SHORTENED lifetimes."

So, how many of you have surplus home-made pies left over from
the Pi party you went to, where everyone else had the same idea?
I will bring leftovers to the clinic today.  White Sugar Coma
can interfere with problem solving ... :-/

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com