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The sound of Pi
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:30 pm
by CheeseRedux
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:58 pm
by Mauiby de Fug
Hah, I did something similar a few years ago for one of my AS Level compositions. Except mine was for solo piano, I used C Minor as the key (possibly my favourite key), and went to 52 decimal places. I turned the numbers into the melody, used 0 as a rest, and I used whatever chords and duration I thought fitted.
Believe it or not, I didn't even know it was Pi day! How remiss of me...
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:06 am
by TGHC
Excellent
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:16 am
by Griff
needs a bangin' donk on it
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:11 pm
by TGHC
Griff wrote:needs a bangin' donk on it
says in a posh voice...........Nothing like a bit of culture what!
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:31 am
by ClymAngus
Griff wrote:needs a bangin' donk on it
You don't need a gun, when you've got a Donk.....
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:17 pm
by Makandal
In french, we have a famous poem to memorize the 120 something decimals of pi. After checking wikipedia, I found the complete version, I only know the part in italique which makes already 49 decimals (you have to count each letter of the words, que:3, j':1, aime:4, a:1, faire:5, apprendre:9 = 3.14159):
Que j'aime à faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages !
Immortel Archimède, artiste ingénieur,
Qui de ton jugement peut priser la valeur ?
Pour moi, ton problème eut de pareils avantages.
Jadis, mystérieux, un problème bloquait
Tout l'admirable procédé, l'œuvre grandiose
Que Pythagore découvrit aux anciens Grecs.
Ô quadrature! Vieux tourment du philosophe
Insoluble rondeur, trop longtemps vous avez
Défié Pythagore et ses imitateurs.
Comment intégrer l'espace plan circulaire ?
Former un triangle auquel il équivaudra ?
Nouvelle invention : Archimède inscrira
Dedans un hexagone ; appréciera son aire
Fonction du rayon. Pas trop ne s'y tiendra :
Dédoublera chaque élément antérieur ;
Toujours de l'orbe calculée approchera ;
Définira limite ; enfin, l'arc, le limiteur
De cet inquiétant cercle, ennemi trop rebelle
Professeur, enseignez son problème avec zèle
Incredibly useless...
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:05 pm
by Commander McLane
Neat!
But what about the zeros?
EDIT: I should have counted letters before I wrote.
'mystérieux' has ten letters.
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:21 pm
by TGHC
Makandal wrote:In french, we have a famous poem to memorize the 120 something decimals of pi.
the number of decimal places is infinite.
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:21 pm
by DaddyHoggy
TGHC wrote:Makandal wrote:In french, we have a famous poem to memorize the 120 something decimals of pi.
the number of decimal places is infinite.
Probably...
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:38 pm
by Mauiby de Fug
DaddyHoggy wrote:TGHC wrote:Makandal wrote:In french, we have a famous poem to memorize the 120 something decimals of pi.
the number of decimal places is infinite.
Probably...
No probably about it! It was proved 250 years ago that pi is irrational.
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:01 pm
by Cody
Mauiby de Fug wrote:
No probably about it! It was proved 250 years ago that pi is irrational.
What's this... there is no pi?
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:46 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Mauiby de Fug wrote:
No probably about it! It was proved 250 years ago that pi is irrational.
It's not irrational, it's just misunderstood and a bit grumpy at times...
Re: The sound of Pi
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:50 pm
by Cody
DaddyHoggy wrote:It's not irrational, it's just misunderstood and a bit grumpy at times...
I resemble that remark.