Actually, I see this as a direct response to that claim (and you beat me to the punch by a minute or two).
Basically, it doesn't work that way: by claiming that music derived from pi isn't copyrightable, it creates a distinction between music that isn't, and music that is, derived from pi. Even though the melody could be found somewhere in pi, it wasn't derived from pi; it was the result of an artist's creativity.
Similarly, numbers aren't copyrightable, but software is (in most countries) and software is just a big number, so what gives? The reasoning is the same: you could get that number from a giant random number generator, but the person who developed the software didn't, and that's why they're able to copyright it.
If music made from pi is copyrightable, and pi is a natural number which existed before any of the stuff that the RIAA peddles, then you could go arbitrarily deep into the digits of pi and find just about any sequence of notes ever composed, and claim that just about any melody existed in pi before it was recorded and sold.
Since copyright infringement can be found on the basis of a recognizable sequence of only a few notes, the potential ramifications of copyrighting pi would be immense.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, MAN. I love your sense of logic.
Meth turns you to mush in a month. The withdrawal makes you want to die. It is bad.
Alcohol turns you to mush in a few decades. However, alcohol is much more addictive than meth, because there are thousands of more alchol addicts than meth addicts. And the withdrawal can actually be FATAL (unlike meth). Therefore, alcohol is much worse than meth.
By further extension of this profound twist of logic, WATER will turn you to mush in 80-100 years. And if alcohol is bad because THOUSANDS are addicted to it, water is MUCH more addictive than even alcohol, because it is consumed by EVERYONE! And the withdrawal from water WILL BE FATAL! Therefore, water is MUCH worse than alcohol!
When you divide two consecutive members of the Fibonnacci serie (x[n]=x[n-1]+x[n-2], 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34,...) you get tau
Correction: The ratio approaches tau for values farther in the sequence, but you don't "get tau". (You get the sequence 1, 2, 1.5, 1.666667, 1.4, 1.625, 1.615385,... which oscillates around tau, each value being closer to it than the previous.)
No, there should be 365.2422 degrees in a circle! That way, the Earth moves 1 degree per day!!!
Only on the average.
Now, if you can set up the units so that the area swept in a day is a nice round number like 1 (it's a constant - see Kepler's 2nd law), I might be impressed enough to sign up for your newsletter.
The fix, iirc, is setting the interface size to "condensed" and using the "pale grey" skin. (It's not exactly like it used to be, but it's close enough.)
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You really shouldn't post things like that in-between mealtimes. You're making me hungry.
Actually, I see this as a direct response to that claim (and you beat me to the punch by a minute or two).
Basically, it doesn't work that way: by claiming that music derived from pi isn't copyrightable, it creates a distinction between music that isn't, and music that is, derived from pi. Even though the melody could be found somewhere in pi, it wasn't derived from pi; it was the result of an artist's creativity.
Similarly, numbers aren't copyrightable, but software is (in most countries) and software is just a big number, so what gives? The reasoning is the same: you could get that number from a giant random number generator, but the person who developed the software didn't, and that's why they're able to copyright it.
If music made from pi is copyrightable, and pi is a natural number which existed before any of the stuff that the RIAA peddles, then you could go arbitrarily deep into the digits of pi and find just about any sequence of notes ever composed, and claim that just about any melody existed in pi before it was recorded and sold.
Since copyright infringement can be found on the basis of a recognizable sequence of only a few notes, the potential ramifications of copyrighting pi would be immense.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, MAN. I love your sense of logic.
Meth turns you to mush in a month. The withdrawal makes you want to die. It is bad.
Alcohol turns you to mush in a few decades. However, alcohol is much more addictive than meth, because there are thousands of more alchol addicts than meth addicts. And the withdrawal can actually be FATAL (unlike meth). Therefore, alcohol is much worse than meth.
By further extension of this profound twist of logic, WATER will turn you to mush in 80-100 years. And if alcohol is bad because THOUSANDS are addicted to it, water is MUCH more addictive than even alcohol, because it is consumed by EVERYONE! And the withdrawal from water WILL BE FATAL! Therefore, water is MUCH worse than alcohol!
When you divide two consecutive members of the Fibonnacci serie (x[n]=x[n-1]+x[n-2], 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34,...) you get tau
Correction: The ratio approaches tau for values farther in the sequence, but you don't "get tau". (You get the sequence 1, 2, 1.5, 1.666667, 1.4, 1.625, 1.615385, ... which oscillates around tau, each value being closer to it than the previous.)
lim(x->Infinity) Fib(x+1)/Fib(x) = tau
No, there should be 365.2422 degrees in a circle! That way, the Earth moves 1 degree per day!!!
Only on the average.
Now, if you can set up the units so that the area swept in a day is a nice round number like 1 (it's a constant - see Kepler's 2nd law), I might be impressed enough to sign up for your newsletter.
Of course pie can be square, or even non-regular rectangles. Granted they're usually round but that doesn't prove anything.
Shepherd's Pie:
http://simplyrecipes.com/photos/shepherds-pie.jpg
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_BizpeaUzxq8/S4wrazE1lWI/AAAAAAAABvg/9NTnF3iPNbw/shepards-pie.jpg
Pot Pie:
http://blog.sanuraweathers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ChixPotPie_0007.jpg
http://www.foodandwine.com/images/sys/201004-r-turkey-potpie.jpg
http://www.jannorris.com/whats-cooking/chicken-pot-pie-recipe-from-set-the-table-diabetic-key-lime-pie-in-todays-sentinel/
Apple Pie:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/3063024748_7d252abc83.jpg
That's no problem; just relabel the months:
Anuary, Bebruary, Carch, Dapril, Fay, Gune, Huly, Jaugust, Keptember, Loctober, November, Pecember
Then put the day after the month:
-> BEB01, DAP01, JAU01, PEC01
(bonus: Gune is a heterograph of June, and November doesn't change.)
5280 divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20... which makes it convenient when you want to parcel up land.
Not even this. The angle is in radians. It won't change a bit.
Now, sin(pi*x) is not the same as sin(tau*x), but sin(x) doesn't care whether you prefer using pi or tau.
The fix, iirc, is setting the interface size to "condensed" and using the "pale grey" skin. (It's not exactly like it used to be, but it's close enough.)
photocell...very sensitive to infrared light...The infrared heat hits the photocell
Infrared is not heat. You were right the first time.
...that's what I said.
2 + 2 = 10: 2x4^0 + 2x4^0 = 1x4^1 + 0x4^0
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