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January 11, 2018 4:59 AM Subscribe
Star Wars cantina music as a math problem. Sound required. [single link reddit video, but TOTALLY WORTH IT]
Your calculator! It'll have to wait outside. We don't want them here.
posted by middleclasstool at 5:35 AM on January 11, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by middleclasstool at 5:35 AM on January 11, 2018 [8 favorites]
I’m tired of John Williams and his cliched epic gestures; the whole soundtrack for further movies should be the cantina music looped forever.
posted by thelonius at 5:38 AM on January 11, 2018
posted by thelonius at 5:38 AM on January 11, 2018
Wow, a kindred spirit! I used to sit in class with my eyes closed and see if I could tell what was being written on the chalkboard using only sound. There's rhythm and duration; taps and scrapes. Now I want to actually attack that question so I can see what is predicted for the cantina theme rhythm and how it matches with this formula.
Also, they really should have used a chalk board for this.
posted by dbx at 5:42 AM on January 11, 2018
Also, they really should have used a chalk board for this.
posted by dbx at 5:42 AM on January 11, 2018
jizz.
Still can't believe it's called that.
posted by zamboni at 5:52 AM on January 11, 2018 [6 favorites]
No dashed sevens...this will be hard to learn.
posted by klausman at 6:03 AM on January 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by klausman at 6:03 AM on January 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
Sadly that top rated comment resolving the calculation down to the speed of light trips up on the product of binominals with a -4f instead of +4f. Unless I'm missing the joke. Nobody enjoys a maths joke more than me, except perhaps my wife and some of her friends. Come to think of it...
posted by Molesome at 6:12 AM on January 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Molesome at 6:12 AM on January 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
Yeah, it messes it up, but to be fair it's clearly math abuse of the kind where you 'prove' that 0=1. So the fact that they get within spitting distance of a real number is hilarious.
posted by Merus at 7:26 AM on January 11, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by Merus at 7:26 AM on January 11, 2018 [4 favorites]
zamboni: the etymology of "jazz" is hotly disputed, but one reasonably-respected theory is that it was indeed a variant of the word we now say as "jizz".
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 8:27 AM on January 11, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 8:27 AM on January 11, 2018 [4 favorites]
Heh heh. You said "hotly".
You guys have better ears and/or speakers than I do, I barely hear a thing.
posted by Outlawyr at 8:34 AM on January 11, 2018
You guys have better ears and/or speakers than I do, I barely hear a thing.
posted by Outlawyr at 8:34 AM on January 11, 2018
Han solved for X first!
posted by Frayed Knot at 9:04 AM on January 11, 2018
posted by Frayed Knot at 9:04 AM on January 11, 2018
Seems it's a lot easier to play with pencil rather than saxophone
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 11:35 AM on January 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 11:35 AM on January 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
*Kloo horn
posted by tobascodagama at 12:06 PM on January 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by tobascodagama at 12:06 PM on January 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
from that subreddit: the imperial march
posted by numaner at 4:46 PM on January 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by numaner at 4:46 PM on January 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
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