In celebration of π Day (3/14) 2007, Day Late & Dollar Short Software has released piClock shows the current time (and, optionally, the current date) as strings of digits within the decimal expansion of the ever-popular mathematical constant, π = 3.1415926535… . The widget displays the four digits before and after the string as well.
The Show Position of Digits in π option identifies the location of the date or time string in π by showing where it starts.
More info and download link (donationware) here.
“.The Show Position of Digits in π option identifies the location of the date or time string in π by showing where it starts…..”
uhhhhh ok !
MW = “clear” …. which this ain’t … How does MDN do that ?
I’ve been waiting for this.
mmmmmmm….π
I think my π widget is dirty. It had a small hair in it.
Whoooo, thank goodness, I was afraid this wouldn’t be released in time. Alright, back to the Star Trek marathon.
“oh”: I would intpret this as follows:
Since the decimal expansion of π goes on forever and never repeats, any string of digits ought to be able to found in it somewhere. So today’s date and time (3/14/07 4:27 pm) ought to be someplace in the decimal (i.e, the digits from #100000 to #100010 are 0314070427)
The fact of the matter that PI is never even goes to show our mathematical thinking based upon base 10 is severely flawed.
Think about it, the universe is composed of orbit and sphere’s.
Our way of thinking is two demential and the universe is three demential.
We have the secrets of the universe staring us right in the face, but we continue to think based upon how many fingers and toes we have.
What primates we are.
@oh my: Don’t blame MDN for the lack of clarity. The (somewhat poor) description of the “Show positions…” feature is mine. (In rushing to get this out while Pi Day was still on-going, cleaning up the web site description wasn’t my highest priority.) The screenshot should help explain things.
My thanks to MDN for posting this.
“Day Late” Don
Day Late & Dollar Short Software
π Day was in 1592. That’s pretty old news by now.
Yes … a primate I am ….
“We have the secrets of the universe staring us right in the face, but we continue to think based upon how many fingers and toes we have.”
Which is exactly why I only trust mega-multi-flagellum with investment advice. And the enemy of my anemones as well.
dude, speaking of “dimential” did you mean, “dimensional”?
MW = “slowly” as in, slowly, get off your podium, and find a copy of firefox 2.0 or greater with spell check… sheesh
primate indeed!
O.K., so where the hell is my natural logarithm clock? ! ! ! !
Just kidding. Someone always whines so that was pre-emptive.
Only primates use Firefox to check spelling:
Secrets to using Mac OS X Tiger’s built-in Dictionary with Safari
Ah, shut your π hole!
There’s a Star Trek marathon?
Day Late and Dollar Short Software, you’d think they would release it tomorrow.
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This is news? I think someone needs to create a webpage that lists all the people who actually download and use this Widget… It shouldn’t take long to create… I mean, how long could it actually take to list zero names?
STUPIDEST… WIDGET… EVER
This is so pointless… Any serious math fan, would be computing the position of the current time string within pie every minute using an abacus… Like I do.
You widget users are losers!
It is also Steak and Blow Job Day:
http://www.steakandbjday.com/
meat with a treat!
Somebody has to say it, so I will. The lack of an end to pi is unrelated to the base used. Fundamentally, regardless of what you do, the ratio of a circle’s diameter to its circumference can only be approximated. No matter what size your circle is, if your diameter is a nice even number, your circumference will be impossible to express exactly.
The fact of the matter that PI is never even goes to show our mathematical thinking based upon base 10 is severely flawed.
Never even? 3.14265358
Dude, what the hell are you even talking about? How do you get from there to base ten?
3.14159265358
Please don’t feed the MacDude, aka WiseGuy. He’s obviously out of prescription meds and has to rely on good ol’ cannabis until next week…
Dude, so like, there could be an entire universe in an atom of my fingernail?!
π day may be 3/14 in the USA, but in the rest of the world, surely it’s July 22nd?
MW: π day is still “coming”!