At a pub quiz the other day, I was very cross at not getting the usp of a novel of 20000 (?) words. Cross because I heard its title as “Not Awake”, so the answer obviously wasn’t the digits of pi, as it started 3 5...
Mike Sent from my iPad > On 12 Oct 2021, at 23:04, Donna Ydreos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ahh—9 months and 42 days > > Left over pumpkin pie day. > > I saw 3pi as 942|365 days—bringing the spring equinox > > > 3 x OP 314 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOh0xND2ilQ > > Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi may have been born about 340 years ago but > his music really got going in 1707 > > Could be played on: > > La Cathédrale > A violin by Antonio Stradivari > Cremona, 1707 > > labelled Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1707 > > 314 years ago the point when Vivaldi abandoned the priesthood and devoted > himself entirely to his music resulting in The Four Seasons—the 4 concertos > considered to be the single greatest sensation of classical music > > The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 "Spring": > II. Largo e pianissimo sempre > Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Iona Brown > <https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J03N2RQ/ref=dm_ws_ps_adp> > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07X6526P4/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk2 > > > Not A Wake: A dream embodying (pi)'s digits fully for 10000 decimals > by Michael Keith > <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4942770.Michael_Keith>, Diana Keith > <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4942771.Diana_Keith> (Illustrator) > > "Not A Wake" is a collection of poetry, short stories, a play, a movie > script, crossword puzzles and other surprises, constructed according to a > unique principle: counting the number of letters in successive words of the > text (the first word has 3 letters, the next word has 1 letter, the next word > has 4 letters, and so on) reveals the first 10,000 digits of the famous > mathematical number pi (3.14159265358979...). Fans of the number pi, > constrained writing (such as Georges Perec's "La Disparition"), wordplay, > puzzles, or experimental prose and poetry will find much to savor in this, > the first book-length work based on the pi constraint. > > https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11701114-not-a-wake > > >> On Oct 12, 2021, at 3:45 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Prolly you are in the class >> of Blue rather than Danube >> whose color depends on the sky >> but the song, and dance, persist >> >> ~greg heil >> picsrp.github.io >> i.tgu.ca/real_cal >> >> -- >> >> from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> >> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> >> date: Oct 12, 2021, 12:20 PM >> subject: Re: [Jchat] 3p1 >> >>> I am probably missing the joke (was the point that 0 looks kind of like a >>> circle??), but >> >> 3p1 ~: o.3 >> 0 >> 3p1 -: o.3 >> 1 >> >> -- >> Raul >> >> -- >> >> from: greg heil <[email protected]> >> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> >> date: Oct 12, 2021, 11:33 AM >> subject: 3p1 >> >> in j >> 3p1 ~: o.3 >> >> =~ 9.42 >> or Oct 12th >> >> the third Pi day >> is all about fun.ctions >> candidate fun.ction: >> >> youtube.com/results?search_query=op+314 >> >> Fun >> enough or >> ction? >> >> better? >> >> ~greg heil >> picsrp.github.io >> i.tgu.ca/real_cal >> . >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
