Every Day Is Pi Day
Creative
fun pi web toy
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
3 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, neat demonstration of pi digits
From 3 comments
It seems this Show HN proves you rather wrong. I understand the point, you use a different format for your dates than the US. But the point of this Show HN is that all number…
trcollinson on HNI loved this: http://euler.party/pi.js but it could have been done better by preallocating an array of size [86400] (all seconds in a day)
someloll on HN"Euler" is pronounced "Oiler", which makes the domain quite amusing if you share my childish sense of humour.
onion2k on HN
Objections
Date format is US-centric; ISO or DD/MM users are left out
From 2 comments
For most of us in the world, No Day is Pi Day. http://imgur.com/1r5QpQu
Jaruzel on HNAlso works with YYYY-MM-DD... Although admittedly I too find the US date system's wrong-endianness pretty annoying.
GlennS on HN
Text rendering is blurry
From 1 comment
The text is very blurry on my browser, I'm not sure if it's intended but it makes it hard to focus on what's written.
seszett on HN
Pi digits do not provably contain all sequences; some times are missing
From 3 comments
> all number sequences can be found within the digits of pi quite easily I dispute that, although I guess the general brute-force solution is 'easy' given infinite time.
oneeyedpigeon on HNI wrote a quick script to test it. It does not take leap seconds into consideration and assumes all months to have 31 days (would be easy to modify, but it is sufficient for the…
zulln on HNI wonder if the 6 million digits cover all possible 6 digit year and time combinations, I guess it wouldn't be hard to bruteforce check. Edit: I just noticed for the time digits,…
anfractuosity on HN
Requests
Remove the text blur
From 1 comment
The text is very blurry on my browser, I'm not sure if it's intended but it makes it hard to focus on what's written.
seszett on HN
Preallocate array or use a better data structure than a string
From 2 comments
I loved this: http://euler.party/pi.js but it could have been done better by preallocating an array of size [86400] (all seconds in a day)
someloll on HNI certainly wasn't suggesting that! Surely there's a superior data structure than a string, though.
oneeyedpigeon on HN
Questions
Does the 6 million digit string cover all date and time combinations?
From 2 comments
I wonder if the 6 million digits cover all possible 6 digit year and time combinations, I guess it wouldn't be hard to bruteforce check. Edit: I just noticed for the time digits,…
anfractuosity on HNA quick script from me determined you need 10,524,628 decimals of pi for this to work for all dates and times, with the limiting time being 16:25:42.
mbb70 on HN
Alternatives named
pifs project for finding files in pi
From 1 comment
Seen this already? https://github.com/philipl/pifs
rnhmjoj on HN
Reverse lookup of seconds to pi offsets
From 1 comment
pi to the 10 millionth digit was not enough. I had to use the billionth (didn't try anything between those two). Mind you, the 10 millionth only had 3 times that didn't match.…
slau on HN