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Alas, a holiday a week after the ordeal by I.R.S. form sounds good to me.
bs
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Paul L. Snyder wrote:
> Quoting George Gallen <ggallen@slackinc.com>:
>
> > what is sad is that so much thought has gone into this?
>
> I hardly think so! In my opinion, there hasn't been anywhere near _enough_
> thought put into it.
>
> I mean, really! The celebration of a universal constant such as pi should
> not be tied to the vagaries of American date-writing conventions. Perhaps
> March 14 is suitable for a vulgar festival, but it's hardly intellectually
> satisfying.
>
> How about designating the "Pi Point" to be when 1/pi-th of a year has
> elapsed? That would be (if my calculations are correct) on April 27, just
> after 04:23:40? Or, 1/pi-th of a year /before/ the end of the year: that
> would be September 6, just before 19:36:20. (This latter is a much better
> time to celebrate by raising circular beer glasses if we're calculating
> relative to a local time zone.)
>
> For reduced arbitrariness, rather than calculating from Jan 1, it could be
> calculated relative to the solstices. This has the added advantage of
> eliminating any arguments about time zones. As a back-of-the-napkin
> calculation, that will be somewhere around April 16, 18:17 UTC. In PA, that
> will be 1:17 PM EST. (Check above figures before relying on them, obviously.)
>
> That's a Saturday, this year. Anybody up for drinks? We need to get the
> REAL Pi Point on the calendar.
>
> Irrationally,
> pls
>
>
>
>
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