Teaching Approximations (was Re: Microcode, which is a no-go for

For those musically uninitiated, my reference to Elgar was the interesting discovery by an amateur musician that the "enigma" of the "Nimrod" variation, which has been debated by musicologists for the last century or so, is very likely pi. Consider that by assigning a number to the degrees of the scale, you have 3.142 = mi do fa re, or the opening notes that Elgar referred to in his letters for his "small circle of friends". Here's a YT performance of Nimrod so you can see how often this theme occurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE Musicologists generally don't like the proposed solution, but bear in mind that the "Enigma Variations" were composed at nearly the same time that the Indiana Pi Bill was being ridiculed by the literate world. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill Politicians! --Chuck