[seqfan] Re: A123456 = Albumblatt für Elise (- 20 ?)

[Jacques Tramu]

Hi Simon,I think this book  naming is  'A void'
Jacqu*s  (with constraint) Tramu


Simon Plouffe a écrit :
> Hello everybody,
>
>
> Just a note : the book 'la disparition' of Georges PEREC
> does exist, it is not a joke. I have that book, I was skeptic
> so I scanned the book to find the letter E : no success.
> There is no single letter E in it, apart from the author's
> name and the usual copyright stuff at the beginning.
>
> But also : that book was translated into english and
> the title is 'the void' with the same constraint, the story
> is the same, just names have changed.
>
> Later in his life, Georges PEREC repeated the exploit
> of writing a book with a much higher goal :
> The book ' Les Revenentes' contains only the vowel E,
> no A's, no I's no O's etc. The book is almost unreadable.
>
> I also scanned that book: it is true, only E appears in it.
>
> There is a general rule of all this : the higher is the
> constraint the harder it will be to read it.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> simon plouffe
>
>
>
> 2010/3/12 Jacques Tramu <jacques.tramu at echolalie.com>:
>   
>> Why not add
>> "Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure ...." (Marcel Proust)
>> and  "La disparition" de Georges Perec
>> (astonishing sequence,  this 240 pages book is written without  the
>> letter 'E')
>>
>> Maximilian Hasler a écrit :
>>     
>>> I wanted to check something and entered A123456 as a "random number".
>>>
>>> Then I noticed that this sequence has the same definition as A144488
>>> but different values.
>>>
>>> I somehow enjoyed listening to the music, but at the same time, I
>>> don't know what to think about this "integer sequence".... (it has not
>>> even a keyword specifying its nature...),
>>> one of the problems being that this calls for a "uncountable"
>>> completion --- one should also add the sequence of bytes representing
>>>
>>> * the UTF-8 encoding of all important literature (maybe starting with
>>> I Ching, Brahmana, the Bible, Greek literature from Homer's Trojan War
>>> to Euclid's Elements, Caesar's Gallic War, etc, etc...)
>>>
>>> * digitized images of important artwork (da Vinci's Mona Lisa, ...)
>>> (in various formats, resolutions, colour depths ...)
>>>
>>> etc etc...
>>>
>>> Maybe the last example sounds a bit mad, but at least the UTF-8 (=
>>> ISO-Latin1 = ASCII for characters in the respective subset) encoding
>>> of classical texts should be included if music scores are.
>>>
>>> But I admit that this is not very constructive so far....
>>> Should we add
>>> 71, 97, 108, 108, 105, 97, 32, 101, 115, 116, 32, 111, 109, 110, 105,
>>> 115, 32, 100, 105, 118, 105, 115, 97, 32, 105,...
>>> for "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres"
>>>
>>> or rather
>>> 71, 65, 76, 76, 73, 65, 32, 69, 83, 84, 32, 79, 77, 78, 73, 83, 32,
>>> 68, 73, 86, 73, 83, 65, 32, 73, 78, 32, 80, 65,...
>>> for "GALLIA EST OMNIS DIVISA IN PARTES TRES"
>>>
>>> or drop UFT-8, and code letters by 1..26 and separate them by a "0" ?
>>> maybe both, just like for Beethoven's Albumblatt für Elise....
>>>
>>> (I also ask for the corresponding "to text conversion" link --
>>> as for the existing "cons" and "listen" links)
>>>
>>> Maximilian
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S.: "In the beginning there was nothing."
>>> So it may seem natural to start counting at 0... ;-)
>>>
>>>
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