Poe, E.: Near A Raven

• Published in 1995
• Added on 2012-02-25

At the time of its writing in 1995, this composition in Standard Pilish, a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", was one of the longest texts ever written using the π constraint, in which the number of letters in each successive word "spells out" the digits of π (740 digits in this example). For length this poem was subsequently outdone by the nearly-4000-digit Cadaeic Cadenza, whose first section is just Near A Raven with the first three words altered, but since this version is fairly well-known by itself (for example, it was reprinted in Berggren, Borwein and Borwein's "Pi: A Source Book"), we have decided to give it its own web page.

Links

• http://www.cadaeic.net/naraven.htm

Other information

BibTeX entry

@online{item14,
	key = {item14},
	type = {online},
	title = {Poe, E.: Near A Raven},
	author = {Mike Keith},
	abstract = {At the time of its writing in 1995, this composition in Standard Pilish, a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", was one of the longest texts ever written using the π constraint, in which the number of letters in each successive word "spells out" the digits of π (740 digits in this example). For length this poem was subsequently outdone by the nearly-4000-digit Cadaeic Cadenza, whose first section is just Near A Raven with the first three words altered, but since this version is fairly well-known by itself (for example, it was reprinted in Berggren, Borwein and Borwein's "Pi: A Source Book"), we have decided to give it its own web page.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2012-02-25},
	date_published = {1995-12-07},
	urls = {http://www.cadaeic.net/naraven.htm},
	collections = {Animals,Art},
	url = {http://www.cadaeic.net/naraven.htm},
	urldate = {2012-02-25},
	year = 1995
}