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It's a special kind of person who cares enough about math to celebrate "pi day", but not enough to be disturbed by the approximation of 3.14.

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Even NASA only uses 15 digits because anything beyond that is unnecessary even at Universal scales.

Also if you want to be really picky, you can celebrate at 1:59 and 29 seconds.

27 seconds! :)

I'd thought 26, but I wasn't rounding properly. I've heard it as "thirty-four seconds before two o'clock", to obscure what time it actually refers to.

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