view from the archipelago: trivium of the moment

October 30, 2005

all of the beatles recordings, played back-to-back, clock in at a total
of 10 hours and 28 minutes.

John D.C. Masters said...: Stunning work of mathematics. I wonder if a longitude and latitude can be computed from the same numbers. Split the years in half--pre-Rubber Soul is longitude, and everything afterwards is latitude. Where will you end up?; Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:33:00 PM
b1-66er said...: super-cool idea.

there're some mathematical transformations that could let you do what're known as "one-to-one onto mappings," where you could take the world overlay the present physical geographies with images of albums and singles sleeves, with rough approximations of current countries (more likely, just play within the continental borders) and make the beatles planet -- having it being roughly representative of the geography.

if you were even more hardcore, you could map the gdp of the countries against the popularity of given singles/albums.

you could always fake it without getting math-y, of course. but i like the idea of getting more (minorly) hardcore.; Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:46:00 PM
Mohit Kishore said...: hi, i trawled over here through pheedo. good stuff guys! have linked you from my blog.; Sunday, October 30, 2005 10:26:00 PM