Whoa.....
This genius wrote a poem, roughly sounding like Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven", except the twist is, if you count the letters in each words, the whole poem is actully pi, listed to 740 decimal places.
Check the whole thing, but for maths geeks, heres the first paragraph...
"Poe, E.
Near a Raven
Check the whole thing, but for maths geeks, heres the first paragraph...
"Poe, E.
Near a Raven
Midnights so dreary, tired and weary.
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's antedoor.
"This", I whispered quietly, "I ignore".
If this guy doesnt win a nobel prize, who will?
posted by Tom Gara at 12:26 PM
3 Comments:
is there a nobel prize for nerdery?
11:29 PM
Tom, you're such nerd it begins to scare me...
Siz
1:12 PM
ok if having a thing for numerical constants expressed in the form of constrained writing versions of gothic poetry makes me a nerd then...
oh.
yeah.
12:47 AM
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