My weblog stats have gone up considerably in the past few days, in part because a math teacher in Ohio is linking to last year’s π Day post. She even used Clare’s π pie photo from that post.
It seems a lot of folks search the Internet for “pi day” related stuff around the middle of March and this blog got several hits. Not millions or even thousands, but dozens — which is rare for Cluch Cargo Lips.
Last year I searched for songs about π for my Jeux Sans Frontiers blog but didn’t find too many fun ones. I ended up using American Pie. I didn’t realize I had one on CD. Kate Bush’s newest album has a song called π in which she sings the first 150 digits of π* but according to this guy, she made a mistake at digit 54.
*which is almost as much fun as Mrs. Bartolozzi in which she repeats “Washing Machine” ad nauseum. (just kidding. I love Kate Bush!)
π
by Kate Bush
Sweet and gentle and sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers
And a complete infatuation with the calculation
Of π
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity3.14159 26535897932
3846 264 338 3279Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
But he must, he must, he must
Put a number to it50288419 716939937510
582319749 44 59230781
6406286208 8214 80865132Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity82306647 0938446095 505 8223…
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Drums: Stuart Elliott
Bass: Eberhard Weber
Guitar: Dan McIntosh
Keyboards: Kate
Additional Vocals: Lol Creme
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