Happy π Day (3.14), and 7 more cool numbers |
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| By: john in sacramento Thursday March 14, 2013 8:06 pm | |
Dunno how accurate this is because I’m not a musician, but pretty cool
The discovery and refinement of pi was a result of a collaboration over centuries from the Babylonians, to Archimedes, to Tsu Chung-Chi, to Leonardo … on through today
Why do you need pi? You can use pi to find the area of a circle … π r ² … 3.14 times the radius squared.
7 Numbers That Are Just as Cool as Pi. From the number one, to Euler’s Number, to Tau, and Phi (the golden ratio)
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Here’s a BBC video on Phi (φ) and what that means
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD-ZiqDvnKo
PS I had more content, but I was using Safari earlier and it kept crashing … gah!
Love! This music theoretician approves highly of the π music video, so much that I’m stealing for facebook.
recc’d.
3.14 is a crude representation of pi, and if you want to get a bit more accurate there is only one pi date per century:3.14.16, or March 14, 2016 this century.
Einstein was born March 14.
Now the Ides of March is upon us!
I like it!
Very cool video. And so is the one at #1. Thanks, John.
I find PI to be more enjoyable than U2. ‘Specially peach PI.
very nice tune/video, thanks.
Awesome! So, how the guy figured out the notes and the chords sounds right?
Wouldn’t it be March 14 2015? 3.1415 …
Glad you liked it Elliot, greenwarrior, and bpollen. Thought it was different and enlightening
3.1415926… rounds to 3.1416
March 14, 1593 would have been even closer to perfect pi day, but they didn’t have the internet yet.