From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V7 #75 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Monday, December 19 2005 Volume 07 : Number 075 In this issue: [lucy-list] A new song about pi RE: [lucy-list] A new song about pi Re: [lucy-list] A new song about pi Re: [lucy-list] A new song about pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:39:14 -0500 From: Phil Kalina <76106.566@compuserve.com> Subject: [lucy-list] A new song about pi I'm listening to (and enjoying) Kate Bush's new album, Aerial. On the track titled (in Greek) pi, she sings (no kidding!) well over a hundred digits. And the first fifty-four (including the leading 3.) are the actual digits of pi. hoping all are well. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:56:48 -0000 From: "Matt Bloomfield" Subject: RE: [lucy-list] A new song about pi Hi Phil, you wrote: > On the track titled (in Greek) pi, she sings (no kidding!) > well over a hundred digits. And the first fifty-four > (including the leading 3.) are the actual digits of pi. I'm intrigued. From 55 onwards does she just make them up or did she mis-calculate? Matt ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:24:15 -0500 From: Phil Kalina <76106.566@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [lucy-list] A new song about pi Ha, I don't know what Kate Bush intended. Check the digits yourself if you like. The lyric for "pi" is online at http://www.katebush.com/katebush_html/lyrics.html and it agrees with the recording. Google found a discussion on the subject at http://usability.typepad.com/confusability/2005/11/kate_bush_sings.html. Here's an excerpt from an unsigned post: "All was well for the first 53 decimal places but then Kate sang "threeeeee oneeeee" when she should have sang "zeeeeeeerooo" instead. She recovered for the next 24 digits but then it went to hell in a handbasket when she missed out the next 22 digits completely before finishing with a precise rendition of her final 37 digits." Btw, I'm really enjoying this 2-CD recording. Phil [with apologies to the non-geeks on the list] At 18 Dec 2005 12:56:48 -0000 (gmt), mail@mattbloomfield.co.uk wrote: > > Hi Phil, you wrote: > >> On the track titled (in Greek) pi, she sings (no kidding!) >> well over a hundred digits. And the first fifty-four >> (including the leading 3.) are the actual digits of pi. > > I'm intrigued. From 55 onwards does she just make them up > or did she mis-calculate? > > Matt ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:56:25 -0500 From: "Mark E. Mallett" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] A new song about pi On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:24:15AM -0500, Phil Kalina wrote: > > Btw, I'm really enjoying this 2-CD recording. Ditto. It's been one of my most long-awaited releases. My friend Jonathan has a nice review of it here: http://jiggle.anaze.us/archives/2005/12/not_random_today.html (scroll past "the go-betweens") and of course for all things Kate, there is http://www.gaffa.org/ mm ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V7 #75 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message