Happy Pi Day Open Thread: Monday, March 14, 2016
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 7:00am
| Happy Pi Day |
| Today’s number is 14, but I’ll throw in some Pi first |
| Pi is sometimes approximated as 22/7, giving it a link to 14 via the link between 1/7 and 1/14 to be discussed later |
| BUT! Pi, like modern politics, is irrational, it never ends. |
| We learn circles as kids; |
| Circumference = 2 • π • radius = π • diameter |
| Circle Area = π • r² = ¼ • π • d² |
| sometimes also spheres |
| Sphere Surface Area = 4 • π • r² = π • d² |
| Sphere Volume = 4/3 • π • r³ = ( π •d³)/6 |
| But think about music for a minute, all those nice waves in the air, and in the wires and the headphones and the speakers |
| Those are sine waves and have zero amplitude at points that are Pi units apart, such as at -2 π, -1 π, 0, π, 2 π, etc. where the peak height is one unit |
| In between, they have alternating maximum and minimum values of + or - one unit at points that are integer multiples of π/2, for instance, a maximum at -3π/2, a minimum at - π/2, a maximum at π/2, a minimum at 3π/2, etc |
| The Pythagoreans knew that harmonics were based on fractions, but never learned that sound itself was trigonometry (which they didn’t grok) |
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| 14 is the product of 2 primes, 7 and 2 |
| Alrighty. If 14 = 7 x 2, then x/14 = x/(7x2). As we learned in last Monday's Open Thread, fractions of the form x/7 where x is a whole number not a multiple of 7 or 999,999 have an interesting property. For any even numerator x, x/14 will factor down to (x/2)/7, so even fractions of the form x/14 have the same interesting property. Interestingly enough, heh, for odd numerators, x/14 has a variant of that property. Last Monday = http://caucus99percent.com/content/open-thread-monday-march-7-2016 crossposted to http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/07/1496115/-Open-Thread-Monday-Mar... Briefly, the fractional part of x/7 is the number sequence 142857 repeated endlessly in that order from a varying but determinable starting point within that series. Thus 1/7 = 0.142857142857..., 2/7 = 0.2857142857..., 3/7 = 0.42857142857..., etc. 2/14 = 1/7 = 0.142857, etc. When x/14 has an odd numerator, the 142857 repeat kicks in, but not necessarily in mid series as it does with x/7. Instead, 1/14, for example = 0.071428571... and 3/14 = 0.214285714..., 5/14 = 0.357142857... etc. |
| Cambrian animals of the genus Hallucinogenia (wikiCommons picture) had 14 legs. |
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| 14 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Lentulus. Claudia Pulchra was born. She became the 3rd wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus. (Yep, that Varus again. This is the 3rd time he has popped up in a Monday Open Thread in the few months I've been doing them. One time for each legion he got annihilated.) |
| 14 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Pompeius and Appuleius. On August 19, Caesar Augustus died. He was succeeded by Tiberius on September 18. He was also declared to be a god, but I don't know the date. Being a god was easier then - just die with a lot of fans. Augustus' grandson, Postumus Agrippa, was slain by his own guards on August 20, but that isn't why he was named Posthumus. |
| On this date in | |
| 1592 | was the best correspondence to Pi in history - 3141592 |
| 1794 | Eli Whitney got a patent for the cotton gin |
| 1885 | The Mikado was first publicly performed in London |
| 1903 | The Pelican Island Wildlife Refuge was established |
| 1910 | The Lakeview Gusher blew its top near Bakersfield. It is still the largest accidental spill in history, |
| 1931 | The first Indian talkie, Alam Ara, was released. |
| 1943 | The Krakow Ghetto was liquidated |
| 1964 | Jack Ruby was convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1978 | Israeli Defense Forces invaded and occupied southern Lebanon |
| 1994 | Version 1.0.0 of the Linux kernel was released |
| 2007 | The first World Math(s) Day was celebrated. So Pi 2 U 2! |
| Born this day in | |
| 1681 | Georg Philipp Telemann, a composer & music theorist |
| 1804 | Johann Strauss I, a composer & conductor |
| 1820 | Victor Emmanuel II, a King & The Father of Italy |
| 1835 | Giovanni Schiaparelli, an astronomer who is blamed for the Martian Canals silliness |
| 1863 | Casey Jones, an engineer for the Illinois-Central RR |
| 1879 | Albert Einstein, a patent clerk, engineer and scientist |
| 1882 | Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński, a mathematician & topologist |
| 1887 | Sylvia Beach, a publisher, founder of Shakespeare & Company |
| 1912 | Les Brown, a sax player, composer & bandleader |
| 1914 | Lee Hays, a singer & songwriter (The Almanac Singers & The Weavers) |
| 1919 | Max Shulman, an author & playwright |
| 1920 | Hank Ketcham, a cartoonist |
| 1922 | Les Baxter. a pianist & composer |
| 1932 | Mark Murphy, a singer |
| 1933 | Quincy Jones, asinger, songwriter, producer, & trumpet player |
| 1943 | Leroy Bonner, a guitarist, singer & producer |
| 1945 | Michael Martin Murphy a singer, guitarist & songwriter |
| 1945 | Walter Parazaider, a sax player (Chicago) |
| 1951 | Jerry Greenfield, an ice cream manufacturer |
| 1954 | Jann Brown a singer (Asleep at the Wheel) |
| Died this day in | |
| 1471 | Thomas Malory, an author |
| 1823 | John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, an admiral & politician |
| 1883 | Karl Marx, an author and philosopher |
| 1973 | Chic Young, a cartoonist |
| 1976 | Busby Berkeley, a choreographer & director |
| 1977 | Fannie Lou Hamer, an activist |
| 1989 | Edward Abbey, an author & activist who liked solitaire |
| 2012 | Eddie King, a guitarist, singer & songwriter |
| Holidays, Holy Days, Feasts, Observances and such |
| Today is the Feast of Matilda |
| Today is also Pi day |
| So feast on this, folks |
Looks like we gots Telemann Strauss Les Brown Lee Hays (Almanac singers & Weavers) Les Baxter Mark Nurphy Quincy Jones Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner Michael Martin Murphy Walter Parazaider Jann Brown Eddie King
| Telemann |
| Yet moar culture, Strauss. |
| Les Brown & His Band of Renown |
| Lee Hays (Almanac Singers) |
| Lee Hays (The Weavers) |
| Les Baxter |
| Mark Murphy |
| Quincy Jones; where to start? |
| Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner (The Ohio Players) |
| Michael Martin Murphy |
| Walter Parazaider (Chicago (Transit Authority)) |
| Jann Browne |
| Eddie King |
OK, it is an open thread, so go for it
I often check in late, but I’m not really needed for an open thread anyway.
Comments
sometimes
Hallucinogenia animals have way more than 14 legs.
The second wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus was Gluteus Maximus.
Karl Marx died on the same day as was born Albert Einstein. Coincidence? I think not.
Matilda is the patron saint of waltzing.
That "American Pi" songwriter, Don McLean, he is currently undergoing mental difficulties, from years of straining his brain trying to understand that number. He recently held a press conference, in which he said: "Question: how many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: one. She gives it to three physicists, thus reducing it to a problem that has already been solved."
Exceptional input this morning. I contemplated
getting Waltzing Matilda in there, but have a thing for that dental stop/lurch in Ma --Tilda, Ma--Tilda. Mostly, it was lack of a clever tie-in which you so brilliantly provided, but now the question is which version.OF course, it was staring me in the face what with Strauss and all, just not with it this week.
It must've been lae when I got to the born/died section, I missed the Marx-Einstein nexus entirely, thanks for pointing it out.
When they first found Hallucinogenia fossils, they were very incomplete and the discoverers thought tht the spines wee legs, so I could also segue to world turned upside down.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
hallucinogenic fossils,
they are often incomplete. ; )
Maybe the hiccups that annoy you in "Matilda" are there to accommodate the effect on the singers of prodigious beer consumption.
The vocal breaks in Ma Tilda do not at all annoy me,
but, quite the contrary, I find them pleasing a form of syncopation. In that song they are especially well coupled and contrasted with the hurried run-on of shetakeamymoneyand runavenezuela.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The time thieves have struck and set the calendar back
to January 22. We have winter sunrise times. Barf.
Happy Pi Day anyway
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
if it is
January 22, that means the people have to go through all the primaries again, and I don't know that there's enough Medicine for that.
But all the medicines, like the primaries, are restored.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Heh ...
Had to take 5 terms worth of calculus in college for my engineering degree way, way, way back when. But seldom had to use all that knowledge, so have forgotten most of it. The one thing I have never forgotten, ever, is that the formula for a circle's circumference is the derivative of the formula for the circle's area. So as long as I remember (pi)*r squared, I'm cooking with gas! Amazing what little things stick in one's head over the years, eh?
For me, engineering boiled down to algebra, geometry and trigonometry ... all of which I learned ... in high school. Go figure!
Thanks for all the music this morning, some of which I haven't listened to in a long while ...
"Long term: first the rich get mean, then the poor get mean, and the rest is history." My brother Rob.
Ah yes, used to have some of those for motion &
distance formulas, but I may have finally forgotten them now that I know that one is always here and now.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good Morning EL and 99%'ers!
It's warmer than normal here in my part of the country, north Florida. I already voted via absentee, but my little drop in the bucket for Bernie is not going to help in my stupid state. Floridiots! ack!
I love pi. I love pie. And I loved the Life of Pi too!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
morning, gg
Here is a pi pie for you.
mmmm........
Bernie pi pie!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Good morning gg, happy pi day.
Enjoy your warm and your Pi.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
One thing I personally think...
on your subject of Gods. It's always interesting that the civilizations with the greatest influence on art and literature seemed to have a love/hate relationship with the concept.
Seems that humans get the most mileage out of having a dogma to fight against actively, and yet its presence lends a stability in times of hardship. Love that kind of duality.
Was actually having a fun discussion with my kids (We're all HUGE Hellenistic Mythology buffs) about the fact that what we think of as the Greek Pantheon was a syncretic mess that was ordered by nerds. Essentially, the first fan-boys, attempting to create a whole out of a mess of other cults and beliefs. It's how they ended up with mystery cults, formal temples, and even public holidays all around the same pantheon, complete with demotions/promotions among the gods as cults rose and fell in favor.
IMHO, it's SO much more interesting than "Guy got nailed to wood, and now we will spend all of time showing you how what he said didn't really mean what he said."
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
It is bizarre with the gods,goddesses, priests and
whatnot. At least the greeks knew the difference between a god (zeuss, etc.) and a demi-god (half human, like Hercules, iirc). The guy they nailed to a stick was, according to any straightforeward reading of the myth, a mere demi-god by those rules.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
But then that got into the whole Roman bureaucracy...
Which was already pretty crazy with the Pontifex Maximus...
And having to juggle cults from modern Turkey, Southern France, as well as Germanic paganism...
I'm surprised Christianity didn't get even MORE crazy than it did, honestly.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
actually,
he was quantum. He was Yahweh himself, and also just some guy; fully both, and both at the same time. Kind of like being both a wave and a particle.
Joe Friday's badge number was 714
The area code for most of southern California when I was a kid was 714
Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs
My first job was at 714 Olive Street
My mother got married on 7/14
There are more, but I can't remember them right now.
I wear size 14 shoes...but that wasn't it.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Quite an agglomeration of coinky-dinks, and
Friday, IIRC, was an LA cop, so his badge matched his area code. The Babd, however never played in SoCal, though, a much better pure hitter who enters into the legend of Ruth did, ye olde splendid splinter hisself got his start in San Diego. He started out as a pitcher, but when the manager saw him hit, he switched him to outfield so that he would be in the line-up every day.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The Babe DID play about 50 yards
from where I am sitting, though! I wish I knew enough to know who you are referencing in San Diego. My grandfather was a huge baseball fan, took me to see plenty of Padres games, always had the TV on a baseball game...
Ah, you gave me a clue. Ted Williams. I never paid much attention to the Red Sox.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
714
also references quaaludes, which power Uncle Ben Carson.
Prince charming can't speak a word full of ludes
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
714
The old-school Rorer Quaalude. (Rorer 714)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
We buy our son the math genius Pi T-shirts every year. His
most recent one is similar to this image:
source: http://www.cafepress.ca/mf/73089332/i-ate-some-pie_tshirt?productId=8376...
Happy Pi Day everyone.
Thank you el, for this, and for the video clips. I'm listening to them all.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
sentimental over Pi
i don't know why.
“There are moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory… ”
― Lawrence Durrell, "Justine"
Irrational /nt
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Meth Mouth
is bailing on The Hairball. She needs to go home and cook.
In Ohio, Bernie just announced -- he's releasing
transcripts to all of his paid speeches.
Good move, right before the vote!
Thanks for today's OT, el. Especially enjoy your Event Timeline and Born Today.
Mollie
elinkarlsson@WordPress
“If a dog won’t come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”-- Woodrow Wilson
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Thanks. I usually include an event timeline,
bord today and died today in lieu of any topical content since I generally write these up in advance. I'm not only on the left coast, but we are often traveling, out and about or otherwise busy on weekends. Using this format I can do these up a couple of hours at a time throughout the week and schedule for Monday well in advance.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Putin starts pullout from Syria
Mission Accomplished?
Thanks EL
Makes me think of Jazzfest. The food booths are exquisite and my tradition is to make my way from the turnstile to the pie booth as soon as I arrive. The booth is run by some vintage women of color and you can tell they know pie just by looking. So, the first thing I do is stop for a piece of sweet potato pie. Testament to the sweet potato pie -> roughly twenty years ago, I had the whole family @Jazzfest. My youngest was ~4 years old and I knew she like pumpkin pie. I did my usual sweet potato pie stop and tried to get her to sample the pie. She turned up her nose. I set the pie down and was preoccupied with something else, when I turned back to get my pie, it was gone. She broke down and gave it a try, all of it.
BTW, PI is the ratio of the circle's circumference to its diameter, hence pi*r**2=area of a circle.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
You have me baffled, you said:
and I said:
Thanks for the tunes.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Covering Quincy :-)
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Covering Les Baxter
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Ditto
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Here comes my beloved number π at my almer mater
at the Technical University Berlin
By Holger Motzkau - Own work (own photo), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3642272
That pie is for el to say hmmm and thank you:
By GJ - Pi_pie2.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4427143
That was the main entrance in 1968 during protests against the "Notstandsgesetze" (German Emergency Acts). Looks like a little bit socialist, eh?
By Holger.Ellgaard - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7936806
I remember students organizing for protests in the "AudiMax" like this from 1971. This is from 1977. I was already "grown up" by then and worked and left the TU behind.
Von W. Hermann (Fotostab am IfP - Institut für Publizistik FU Berlin) - http://www.weltgegend.de/ends/uni.html, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31334551
Somewhere in there, I think it was the 11th floor, I wrote my thesis:
By Nikolai Schwerg - Deutsche Wikipedia, quote of the upload blog: (Löschen) (Aktuell) 19:38, 11. Jul 2004 . . Nikolai Schwerg (Diskussion) . . 600 x 800 (103652 Byte) (*Beschreibung: Technische Universität Berlin - Zentrum für moderne Sprachen (ehemaliges Telefunken-Hochhaus) *Quelle: fotografiert am 22. Juni 2004 *Fotograf: Nikolai Schwerg *Lizenzstatus: GNU FDL), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=690492
That's the Chemistry Building (back then it was "Technical Chemistry Building" only. I can't remember it was so "green". I remember standing in the cold, waiting for the bus, pregnant, trying my first cigarettes in the expectation they would warm me up. Kinda didn't work. I never smoked again.
Von Matti Blume - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4644103
I don't remember much of it. All gone. But if you want to learn something of the number pi
eand more, you know it's tuition free over there.https://www.euronews.com/live