[time-nuts] pi Day

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Wed Mar 4 06:59:05 UTC 2009


> I was reminded tonight that "pi Day" is coming on 3/14. That's fine, but 
> a little inaccurate for our kind.
> 
> Suppose I want to gather with friends and buy a "round" or have a sector 
> of pie to celebrate.  What's the appropriate time to honor?
> Since 3/14 is not based on the value of pie but on its representational 
> decimal numbers (I have no problem with that), then it seems the right 
> time would be (to the tenth of a second) March 14 at 1:59:26.5 . Waddya 
> think? Does that appropriately honor the irrational spirit of the number?

Here one more alternative to your fine list of possibilities.

If pi day is 3/14 then the "pi hour" of pi day could be
15.926535 o'clock, which is 15:55:35 (3:55:35 PM).

Not precise enough? To the nanosecond the exact pi
time of pi day is 3/14 15.9265358979323846264 h =
15 h + 55 m + 35 s + 292 ms + 325 us + 565 ns.

/tvb




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