Comments on: More pi? http://blog.osirra.com/2007/06/01/more-pi/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:35:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan http://blog.osirra.com/2007/06/01/more-pi/comment-page-1/#comment-2064 Dan Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:26:30 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=947#comment-2064 <p>Not convinced, Jon. While (s)he used all the digits in that left-hand column, they weren't in the right order. There was some transposition going on.</p> Not convinced, Jon. While (s)he used all the digits in that left-hand column, they weren’t in the right order. There was some transposition going on.

]]> By: Jon http://blog.osirra.com/2007/06/01/more-pi/comment-page-1/#comment-2061 Jon Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:33:13 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=947#comment-2061 <p>Thanks Dan - seems pretty conclusive to me - the artist just read the down the columns first, rather than across the rows - I put my money on it being an error - it's in a tunnel, so having pi would make sense, rather than some weird alternative - there's also a bunch of other stuff which is educational on the walls.</p> <p>More evidence that art cannot be trusted - watched an interesting film documentary last night called <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487092/" target="_blank">Who the #$%! is Jackson Pollock?</a>, about a female truck driver that may have bought an original Jackson Pollock for $5 at a thrift store and her attempts to get it authenticated.</p> Thanks Dan – seems pretty conclusive to me – the artist just read the down the columns first, rather than across the rows – I put my money on it being an error – it’s in a tunnel, so having pi would make sense, rather than some weird alternative – there’s also a bunch of other stuff which is educational on the walls.

More evidence that art cannot be trusted – watched an interesting film documentary last night called Who the #$%! is Jackson Pollock?, about a female truck driver that may have bought an original Jackson Pollock for $5 at a thrift store and her attempts to get it authenticated.

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