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Pi Symphony

September 14, 2017

Listeners at a concert complain about music whose time signature is π, roughly 22/7.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-09-14-pi-symphony/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

A: "This music is giving me a headache... what the heck is the time signature?"

B: "Well, it's not a rational number, but it's well approximated by 22/7."

[Caption] "My 'pi symphony' remains unappreciated by the musical establishment."

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Number & Arithmetic › PiNumber & Arithmetic › Irrational NumbersNumber & Arithmetic › FractionsNumber & Arithmetic › Rational Numbers
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