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The pi that won't die!
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PaleFigure
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Location: Wollongong, NSW Australia

The pi that won't die!

Man, if only we'd had the 12" remix of this song back in the day, the Whorer would have held no threat for us!

Seriously, follow the link to get the full-length mp3 version! The guy who made it reminds me of Quan Yeomans from the Aussie band Regurgitator.

mathpi.zip
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:48 am

PaleFigure
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Or, to save you all the trouble, here's the direct link to the mp3:
http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/ton/MathematicalPi.mp3

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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:55 pm

jchillerup
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Joined: 27 Dec 2003
Posts: 198
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Code:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816
(or Mathematical Pi to the tune of 'American Pie')

by

Ken Ferrier and Antoni Chan

INTRO:
A E F#m
A long, long time ago
Bm D F#m E
Long before the Super Bowl and things like lemonade
A E F#m
The Hellenic Republic was full of smarts
Bm D
And a question resting on the Grecian hearts
F#m D E
Was "What is the circumference of a circle?"
F#m Bm
But they were set on rational numbers
F#m Bm
And it ranks among their biggest blunders
D A Bm
They worked on it for years
D E
And confirmed one of their biggest fears
A E F#m Bm7 E
I can't be certain if they cried when irrationality was realized
A E F#m
But something deep within them died
D E7 A D A
the day they discovered pi.
E
They were thinking

CHORUS:
A D A E
Pi, pi, mathematical pi
A D A E
3 point 14 15 92
A D A E
65 35 89 7
F#m B7
932384 62
F#m E7
6433832 7 (not rounded)

VERSE:
A Bm
Well this kind of pie is different than most
D Bm
It hasn't got berries, ain't spread on toast
F#m E
And that's how it's always been
A E F#m
We keep extending its decimal places
Bm D
Pushing our computers through their paces
F#m E
But we'll never reach the end

F#m Bm
So why the fascination with
F#m Bm
A number whose end is just a myth
D A B7
Whence the adulation
D E7
For mental masturbation
A E F#m
It might have something to do with the stars
Bm D
To calculate distances from afar
A E F#m
But that's just a guess 'bout the way things are
D E7 A D A
Regarding the precision of pi
E7
I am pondering

CHORUS:

VERSE:
A Bm
Now I feel that I should mention
D Bm
Pi is applicable in any dimension
F#m E
At least as far as I know
A E F#m
If there were no Pi we'd be missing things
Bm D
Like marbles and mugs and balls of string
F#m B7 E7
And sports such as soccer and curling
F#m Bm
The orbs in their celestial paths
F#m Bm
Navigate along elliptical graphs
D A B7
Ellipses have pi in them too
D E7
Just one side of them has grew
A E F#m
You can see pi in most everything
Bm D
It's in Cornell's Electron Storage Ring
A E F#m
And also in slinkies and other springs
D E7 A D A
And that's why it's important to know pi
E
You should memorize

CHORUS:

OUTRO:
A Bm
Once one night I had a dream
D Bm
That pi was gone and I had to scream
F#m E
Cause all pi things had disappeared (pause)
A E F#m
Can you imagine a world like that
Bm D
Circles aren't round and spheres are flat
F#m B7 E7
It's the culmination of everything we've feared
F#m Bm
'Twas a nightmare of epic proportions
F#m Bm
One that gave me brain contortions
D A B7
Oh wait! I mean contusions
D E7
They put me in some institutions
A E F#m
But then I escaped and now I'm free
D E A D A E
To sing of the virtue of pi

CHORUS:

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:25 am

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