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anonym comments on On Pi day, we eat pie; On Tau day, we eat Taoists? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: anonym 15 March 2011 03:52:38PM *  2 points [-]

You could just use the decimal part of 2.718... as July 18 (7/18). Or you could interpret the blocks of two (71 and 82) as percentages, and the 71% as a month would be August and 82% as a day of August would be the 25th day (so 8/25). Or you could interpret the 7182 as 71.82% and convert that to a moment during the year, which corresponds to 2011-10-27T07:12:00.

EDIT: updated to fix numbers due to mistyping the initial decimals of .718281828 as 712 instead of 718.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 15 March 2011 03:54:17PM 8 points [-]

Any excuse to take an ecstasy tab, eh?

Comment author: Unnamed 15 March 2011 10:48:18PM 0 points [-]

2.712...

2.718281828 ...

Comment author: anonym 16 March 2011 04:06:47AM 0 points [-]

Doh, thanks. Can't believe I made that mistake, as I know it's 18281828.