Happy PI Day 2013: Celebrating Albert Einstein's Birthday

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(And Albert Einstein's birthday, too)

 

[IMP]

Pi pie!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/34/Pi_Pie.jpg/450px-Pi_Pie.jpg

 

[George Jones]

I just saw some grad students get pie thrown at them in order to raise money ($300) for the math and physics society.

 

[AlephZero]

I don't get it. Why isn't Pi day the 22nd of July?

(But I suppose the US would think that was $\pi^{-1}$ day).

 

[Travis_King]

ISO 8061 says we should use the date of 2013-03-14

 

[AlephZero]

I'll start using ISO 8061 when the USA starts using SI unite. Deal?

 

[jhae2.718]

I'll start using ISO 8061 when the USA starts using SI unite. Deal?

So, in other words, never?

I annoy my advisor by insisting on using ISO 8061 and MKS units as I fight a personal battle against stupid conventions.

 

[DiracPool]

I'll start using ISO 8061 when the USA starts using SI unite. Deal?

Aleph, that's your second slight of the USA in the past 24 hours. You need us, get it, US? Hehe.

 

[AlephZero]

So, in other words, never?

Not necessarily. When I was in elementary school I learned yards, feet and inches, tons, hundredweights, stones, pounds and ounces, and money in pounds shillings and pence.

The UK doesn't use any of those measures now. I don't remember anybody dying in street riots during the changeover. Actually, I don't remember anything much about the changeover at all - it just happened.

 

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Speaking of \pi, units, and the geographical location of and around the UK,

Dimensional Analysis

[Source: http://xkcd.com/687/]

[With mouse-over: Or the pressure of the Earth's core will rise slightly.]