La canción de Pi
Hace 7 dias se celebró el día de Pi o día pi ( Pi Day, en inglés) y alrededor del mundo se celebró este acontecimiento de diversas formas. Algunos preparon Pies de Manzanas, confeccionaron T-shirts con el símbolo de pi ().
Pi t-shirt
Asimismo, algunos crearon canciones sobre este número tan fascinante. Precisamente este último detalle quiero compartir con todos ustedes.
Encontré una canción muy entretenida que se titula “Mathematical Pi” (matemática Pi)
Aquí el mp3. de la canción:
Aquí la letra de la canción:
A long, long time ago,
Long before the Super Bowl and things like lemonade,
The Hellenic Republic was full of smarts,
And a question resting on the Grecian hearts was;
What is the circumference of a circle?”,
But they were set on rational numbers,
And it ranks among their biggest blunders,
They worked on it for years,
And confirmed one of their biggest fears,
I can’t be certain if they cried when irrationality was realised,
But something deep within them died,
The day, they discovered, Pi.
They were thinking;
Pi, pi, mathematical pi,
3.14 15 92,
65 35 89 7,
932384 62,
6433832 7 (not rounded).
Well this kind of Pi is different than most,
It hasn’t got berries, ain’t spread on toast,
And that’s how it’s always been,
We keep extending its decimal places,
Pushing our computers through their paces,
But we’ll never reach the end,
So why the fascination with,
A number whose end is just a myth?
Whence the adulation,
For mental masturbation,
It might have something to do with the stars,
To calculate distances from afar,
But that’s just a guess ’bout the way things are,
Regarding the precision of Pi,
I am pondering;
Pi, pi, mathematical pi
3.14 15 92
65 35 89 7
932384 62
6433832 7
Now I feel that I should mention,
Pi is applicable in any dimension,
At least as far as I know,
If there were no Pi we’d be missing things,
Like marbles and mugs and balls of string,
And sports, such as soccer and
