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What was Feynman's point? I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant, so I'm doubly interested.
by essayist 10y ago
What was Feynman's point? I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant, so I'm doubly interested.
- mrybczyn 10y agoA sequence of many 9's in a row in the decimal expansion, which Feynman jokingly extended ... and 'showed' therefore pi was rational.
- ncfausti 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi
- tgb 10y agoIt's amusing to read the talk page on this article - there was lengthy investigation about whether this really had any Feynman connection (i.e. was the story about him apocryphal) and what the article should be called. I think the current title is fantastic - I would have struggled to name such a thing.
- sly010 10y ago> I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant That is probably due to the choice of musical scale more than due to Pi. I believe the output of randint(0,10) on the same musical scale would sound just as pleasant.