Mathematical pi
Letras / Lyrics
INTRODUCCIÓN/INTRO:
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 fear
I can’t be certain if they cried when irrationality was realized
But something deep within them died
the day they discovered pi.
They were thinking
COROS/CHORUS:
Pi, pi, mathematical pi
3 point 14 15 92
65 35 89 7
932384 62
6433832 7 (not rounded)
ESTROFA/VERSE
Well this kind of pie 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 Read more…








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