Columbia, SC (WLTX)- A USC Professor has combined two of his passions: music and the mathematical expression pi.
"I wanted to give my musical spin to that so I wrote this piece called Pi Day," said Reginald Bain, the Coordinator of Composition and Theory and Director of the Experimental Music Studio.
Bain said it took him two years to perfect his musical composition.
"I took the digits of pi, which repeat indifinitely and turned them into a musical composition," he said. "One of the biggest challenges in making a piece out of pi is that pi has an infinite number."
Bain said he used only the first 512 decimal points in his "Pi Day" piece. So for each number, he assigned a different note. He said the difficult part was making the number and the note work together to make a familiar sound.
He said this Pi Day expression is one of many ways people celebrate 3.14 every year.
"Just do artiful things that are based on a kind of free spirit engagement of the idea of Pi," he said.
Professor Bain said and regardless of whether or not a person honors the day, the mathematical constant will never go away.
"It's a number that appears in mathematics, in engineering and music for an incredibly frequent basis."