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To: presidio9

A member of Mensa who claimed to be able to recite the infinite number Pi to more than 1,000 decimal places

Wouldn't you think an experimental musician would find some way to play Pi on the sitar?

20 posted on 11/28/2006 7:39:13 AM PST by HIDEK6

To: HIDEK6

Good point. A microtonal serialist should view pi as an infinite playground.

Of course, I have to point out that the journalist calls pi an "infinite number" when pi is not infinity - it is simply an irrational real constant.

37 posted on 11/28/2006 7:43:07 AM PST by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)

To: HIDEK6

~~A member of Mensa who claimed to be able to recite the infinite number Pi to more than 1,000 decimal places~~

"Mmmmmmmmmm,, pie."

71 posted on 11/28/2006 8:00:48 AM PST by mlbford2 (If you are going to make a hole, make it a big one.)

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