lunes, noviembre 07, 2005

Música CPI (π+1)

Tras la lisérgica entrada sobre π que puso Patxi el otro día hay que aplicar el dicho: "Si no puedes con ellos, úneteles". CPI presenta otro enlace en el que la canción American Pie es desfigurada hasta llegar a Mathematical π (π suena "pai" en inglés). Audio On, por favor. Tiene su gracia. Y para los más interesados, la letra con los acordes de guitarra (ya saben, esas super-fiestas en las que una canción sobre π a tiempo puede salvar la velada...). Nota: Si el enlace no funciona (tiene tendencia a dejar de funcionar cuando se descarga muchas veces), pueden descargarse la canción completa de aquí. [2'53 MB, .mp3]


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


by


Ken Ferrier and Antoni Chan


INTRO:
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A long, long time ago
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Long before the Super Bowl and things like lemonade
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The Hellenic Republic was full of smarts
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And a question resting on the Grecian hearts
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Was "What is the circumference of a circle?"
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But they were set on rational numbers
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And it ranks among their biggest blunders
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They worked on it for years
D E
And confirmed one of their biggest fears
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I can't be certain if they cried when irrationality was realized
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But something deep within them died
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the day they discovered pi.
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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
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932384 62
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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
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And that's how it's always been
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We keep extending its decimal places
Bm D
Pushing our computers through their paces
F#m E
But we'll never reach the end

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

CHORUS

VERSE:
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Now I feel that I should mention
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Pi is applicable in any dimension
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At least as far as I know
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If there were no Pi we'd be missing things
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Like marbles and mugs and balls of string
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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
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You can see pi in most everything
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It's in Cornell's Electron Storage Ring
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And also in slinkies and other springs
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And that's why it's important to know pi
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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
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Cause all pi things had disappeared (pause)
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Can you imagine a world like that
Bm D
Circles aren't round and spheres are flat
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It's the culmination of everything we've feared
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'Twas a nightmare of epic proportions
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One that gave me brain contortions
D A B7
Oh wait! I mean contusions
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They put me in some institutions
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But then I escaped and now I'm free
D E A D A E
To sing of the virtue of pi

CHORUS


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