Independent - The Life Of Pi
The United States accords pi the ultimate accolade tomorrow [14th March], its own national day. "... A life-long obsessive called William Shanks spent 20 years calculating pi to 707 decimal places....
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Maybe getting it wrong is the very point she was trying to make. Shanks 'got it wrong ' and surely the song itself is about the inevitable limitations of human perception and its relentless desire to...
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^That is actually a good point. I also kind of like that there are big gaps because, whether or not she intended this, it nails in the point that Pi is such an infinite number that one can simply get...
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I just thought it was rather amusing and nice that they'd brought Kate's song into the discussion. What they've said certainly makes no difference to my enjoyment of the song.
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There was a very similar article published in Die Welt last month an article about the mathematics and physics of pi, which also mentioned the same points about Kate's song. Though, rather nicely,...
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Wanting accuracy from the press is not being defensive. I'm surprised how people who take the "she got it wrong" side always have something to say about defensiveness but never say anything about...
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^Well said. Bottom line is when it comes to art the rules are a hell of a lot more flexible than in math. So the fact that Kate does not sing the numbers in perfect sequence to me is much more potent...
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It didn't occur to me that this might be controversial. Come on, smile at the irony. It's just a little good-humoured critical observation. Giles, you don't always have to take these things absolutely...
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It's a bit odd to be told, 'Who cares? It doesn't matter' in such an impsassioned way. If you don't care, why get so worked up by the mistake being pointed out?
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I would just like to say that I agree very much with what Rachel is saying, and I feel this discussion is illustrating how beautifully Kate has observed the complexities of the human mind and emotions...
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Quote:It's a bit odd to be told, 'Who cares? It doesn't matter' in such an impsassioned way. If you don't care, why get so worked up by the mistake being pointed out?It is not so much that...
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Agree Rachel, Kate pays way too much attention to detail to simply 'miss' a string of numbers if her aim here was to be accurate. My feeling is indeed that she deliberately left out some numbers to...
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Gilesgiles said Quote:She never issued a press release, to my knowledge, saying she'd be visiting MIT to calculate pi correctly in front of an audience of eminent mathematicians and set a record or...
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The song is called Pi; it's about a man obsessed with nailing every digit of the number; Well maybe its as simple the man in the song got it wrong - - - Life is sad, and so is Love - - -
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Rachel, thank you. You really hit the nail on the head, for me, and I'm so glad you did because I was really at a loss as to how to do it without getting all sensitive and emotional LOLgg
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National Pi Day? Maybe that's why I caught the tail end of Kate's "Pi" on my left-leaning NPR station this morning as I went in to take a shower....Oh, found it - haven't listened yet, though...
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^I love that NPR is embracing the music on Aerial! Of course I listen to it all the time, but always seem to miss those moments...grrrrrr!xoRachel--------www.kundavega.com
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There are a few of us on here who are proponents of the idea of Pi being a single. Wouldn't it have been clever of the record company to release it in time for Pi Day? Probably wouldn't be an enormous...
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^Yep...that would have indeed been a good idea on their part. xoRachel--------www.kundavega.com
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What I found very interesting was the fact that the mathematician who was interviewed on the radio said that, as Kate misquoted Pi, this probably meant that she was more of a mathematician, as...
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