Euler’s Number and the price of fish
A short listening exercise for you: This morning, I turned two streams of data into music. One of these ditties expresses the first 48 digits of the transcendental number e through the medium of handbells. The other ‘plays’ the metric tonnes of salmon sold, day by day, in the second quarter of 2010 on the London Stock Exchange. TUNE 1 TUNE 2 Any idea which is which? »
