Monthly archives for July, 2013
How Much Pi Do You Need?
NASA scientists keep the space station operational with only 15 or 16 significant digits of pi, and the fundamental constants of the universe only require 32. Yet in 2006 Akira Haraguchi of Japan recited 100,000 digits of pi from memory in 16 ½ hours, stopping for five minutes every hour to replenish his strength with onigiri rice balls. And [...]
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A Twelve-Tone Trip Down Memory Lane
Last week Vi Hart posted a wonderful 30-minute video on twelve-tone music, and it really took me back!
(If the video doesn’t load for you, watch it on YouTube.)
Ten years ago, I hadn’t yet decided I wanted to do math. In fact, I was enjoying my music theory classes immensely, and I thought I might study it in graduate school. In [...]
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