Posts Tagged ‘maths’

Masturbating, MacGyver and Maths

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Here are a collection of nuggets and assorted side show oddities that have amused me over the last 24 hours, an might just brighten your day as well.
As far as attention grabbing introductory sentences for a news story go, the following is going to take a lot of beating (so to speak):
A TERRITORY man filmed [...]

Explaining music through maths

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Maths has always been a big part of music, and I’m not just talking about ‘math metal’ (or prog rock or whatever label you want to give it). There’s long been a school of thought that a number of musicians and composers have used both the “golden ratio” and the Fibonacci Sequence to compose music.
This [...]