Kate Bush’s new album, Aerial, has a song named “\u00cf\u20ac” (pi, if you can’t read that). It’s a very nice song, but she’s wrong about the digits of pi.
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\nThe lyrics list 118 digits of pi, but comparing that with the calculated value of pi in Mathematica (which I trust more than Kate Bush), shows that she has a couple of digits wrong, and she left out a chunk of 22 digits.<\/p>\n
Arranged for comparison, with Kate Bush as (a) and Mathematica as (b), we have:<\/p>\n
This matches
\na: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582
\nb: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582<\/p>\n
This is just wrong
\na: 31
\nb: 0<\/p>\n
Kate skipped this section
\na:
\nb: 9986280348253421170679<\/p>\n
The final section is correct
\na: 8214808651328230664709384460955058223
\nb: 8214808651328230664709384460955058223<\/p>\n
It seems really bizarre to me for Kate to write a song about someone obsessed with pi, and then get the digit sequence wrong.<\/p>\n
In any case, it’s a great album. Highly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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