Mr. Blake derived a simple melody by playing a few dozen digits of pi using a C-major scale, with 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9 translated to the notes E, C, F, C, G, D and so on.
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Software that turns a Raspberry Pi computer into a time-lapse camera has won a contest for teenage programmers.
Researchers at the University of Southampton have followed their instincts and built Iridis-Pi, a tiny 64-node cluster based on the Raspberry Pi's usual Debian Wheezy distribution and linked through Ethernet.
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There was the London primary school with a plan to recycle old computer components to turn the Raspberry Pi into a communications device for schools in developing countries.
When I was a teenager I saw a website suggesting pi could be a song, with one as middle C, two as D, three as E, etc.
Check out the possibilities, from the Raspberry Pi (a single-board computer) to littleBits (electronic Legos).
The film opens in Canada, where a writer is interviewing Pi Patel, a native of Pondicherry (now Puducherry), India.
Life of Pi earned a solid 11 nominations, mostly in the technical categories.
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The South Africa native founded Pi, a start-up focused on cloud computing applications, in 2003 and sold the company to EMC in February.
Ang Lee took Life of Pi, a book that was widely considered to be unfilmable, and turned it into a vibrant movie that is full of life.
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While no one would mistake any one Raspberry Pi for a powerhouse, the sheer number of networked devices gives the design both some computing grunt and 1TB worth of storage in SD cards.
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But pi is a celebrity numerical phenomena it is simple and basic enough to be a part of the standard sixth-grade math curriculum, and yet so mysteriously complex that all the supercomputers in the world will never find its last digit.
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Twelve Tennessee students were cited with underage drinking and one with disorderly conduct following the incident early Saturday at a Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity chapter house, according to a university spokeswoman.
After all, if you were going to hide a long numeric message in the very fabric of our reality, pi would be a natural place to do it.
The Model A Pi has less onboard memory than the Model B which has been on sale for almost a year.
And newbie Suraj Sharma of Life of Pi looked like a seasoned veteran in his shawl collar tuxedo.
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Tim Lee of pi Economics, a consultancy, sees a commodity crash as heralding a similar collapse in stockmarkets.
That evening, after watching the movie "Life of Pi" at a mall, they strolled by a fountain and snapped some pictures.
It explores the idea of a low-fuel-use plane that uses open-rotor engines mounted on what is called a Pi-tail in the stern of the ship.
At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, children will gather around what's described as a Pi Day shrine to sing Pi Day songs and perform Pi Day rites.
If its a PI or stalker, local PD will light them up, tell them to move along or even let the reporting party know what is going on.
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Carrying a 4 x 4-inch form factor between a Raspberry Pi and mini-ITX board, it'll be equipped with a Core i3 Ivy Bridge processor, HD 4000 graphics, two SoDIMM sockets, an mSATA slot for an SSD drive, three USB ports, one HDMI port and a mini-PCI slot for wireless connectivity.
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If you're a computational engineer, there's no question about what you do with the Raspberry Pi: you make a supercomputer cluster.
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The boards are a little more expensive than Raspberry Pi's impressively cheap Model A and Model B, but you are getting some bang for that buck.
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But en route there is a terrible storm, and Pi finds himself the sole survivor in a boat.
According to Seattle pi, close to a quarter of a million books have been canceled so far through this program.
The software allows Pi owners to connect a USB camera to the device and fine-tune the interval at which it takes pictures.
Now, a project called UDOO ("you do") seeks to bring the best elements of Raspberry Pi and Arduino together into a single mini-PC that can run either Android or Linux.
Lu and a previous pi-memorizing record holder, Hideaki Tomoyori, who recited 40, 000 digits of pi, have said they linked words or images to groups of two, three or four numbers.
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