amateur mathematician edward j. goodwin tried to legislate a value for pi.
who tried to legislate a value for pi?
amateur mathematician edward j. goodwin
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bullet::::- in 2010 charles and matthew santa argued that the enigma was based on pi, following the misguided attempt by the indiana house of representatives to legislate the value of pi in 1897. elgar created an original melody containing three references to pi based on this humorous incident. the first four notes are scale degree 3–1–4–2, decimal pi, and fractional pi is hidden in the "two drops of a seventh" following the first 11 notes leading to × 11 = , fractional pi. his "dark saying" is a pun set off by an unexplained double bar after the first 24 notes (all black notes)..."four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (pi)". shortly before his death, elgar wrote three sentences about the variations and each sentence contains a hint at pi.
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