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Tuesday 10 May 2011

Thats a kinda nice PI, isn't it?

Today I want to present to you an not so famous, but even better song. OK, you probably know already some part of it: It's a parody on the VERY famous "American Pie" originally written by Don McLean ages ago (in 1971!) and re-sung by many many people, including e.g. Madonna.

But the song I mean is different: its called "Mathematican Pi" and tells the (more or less) complete history of this all time fascinating number, which is so integrally bound to all round objects.
The authors of the Π-lyrics are Antoni Chan and Ken Ferrier. You can get the lyrics with the fitting cords here and if your to lazy to unpack your own guitar (or just not capable of playing it, like me) here is a nice simple Youtube video



So if you have somewhen come to the point, where you ended up in a gathering of Nerds, you most probably can gain their favour, if you begin this song. Plus upon memorizing it you get to lern the first 29 digits of π. (I know only 6 ... somewhat bad, I know)

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