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Manfred comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 121 - Less Wrong
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I always thought pi hour was 3 in the afternoon. (3.14 15:9:26), or plausibly 2 in the afternoon (3.14 1:59:26) if you go with hours mod 12 and then choose the one where you're awake.
not in 2015 it isnt.
Ah, I see :)
Although honestly, what kind of idiot had the idea to order the date mm/dd/yyyy?
It was the only way to make peace between the little and big endians.
This order (including the m/dd/yy abbreviation) was wisely chosen so that Super Pi Day would actually happen once a century. Without that reason, it's completely illogical, so there is no other possible explanation.
It's from the most common spoken order. "March fourteenth, twenty-fifteen."
Are you sure that's right chronologically? Just because in the UK we use dd/mm/yy and we say "Fourteenth of March, twenty-fifteen".
Japan apparently uses yy/mm/dd which makes even more sense, but I have no idea how they pronounce their dates. Point being, I'm not sure which order things actually evolved in.
Nope, no idea, since our records of the spoken language of the past are bad and I'm lazy. Maybe written and spoken dates slowly co-evolved, since it does appear that the m/d/y trend only dates back to the 17th century or so.
That order is based on the increasing size of the sets of possible values, of course.