{"id":2291,"date":"2012-06-28T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T09:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2012-06-28T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T09:40:32","slug":"its-time-to-throw-in-the-tau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time to Throw in the Tau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I generally keep this to myself, but I’m actually a bit of a maths geek at heart… Hey, where are you going? come back here… don’t worry I’m not about to bore you with loads of maths I promise.<\/p>\n

Today is Tau day, 28th June, although you have to use that weird back to front American way of writing the date to see what I mean, it’s 6.28, get it?<\/p>\n

No? mmmmm…\u00a0would it help if I said March 14th is Pi day? (3.14)<\/p>\n

OK if you still haven’t got it, Tau = 2x Pi or to put it another way 2 x 3.14 = 6.28 tadah!<\/p>\n

anyway doesn’t matter, what does matter is the video below.<\/p>\n

A talented musician named Michael John Blake composed a piece of music that transposes the numbers from Tau to 126 decimal places onto the musical scale… and for those math-muso geeks out there, it’s set to 125.6 BPM = 6.28 x 20.<\/p>\n

But forget the geekness that lies beneath this composition, just listen to it, it’s wonderful. By the way, Michael also created a composition based on Pi, but had to remove it off the net due to a copyright infringement claim? yep can you believe it, another composer claimed he’d thought of the idea first and composed a piece of music on Pi… what’s next the Fibonacci Sequence!?!?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3174T-3-59Q<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh and for an explanation of Tau, I can’t think of a better way than this very informative and amusing video by Vi Hart<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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