Re: The math of The Beast

Robert Sneddon <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the following
letters to be typed in news:ZY2rk1B7mydEFwhh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

In message <1148649800.728692.166600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark_Reichert@xxxxxxxxxxx writes

According to Philips, you apparantly have Sony vice-president Norio
Ohga and his love of Beethoven's Ninth to thank for the storage
capacity of a CD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc (see storage capacity)

The "Compact Disc Story" article by Kees A. Schouhamer Immink the
Wikipedia article references states that the "Beethoven's Ninth" tale is
in fact false.

"There were all sorts of stories about it having to do with the length
of Beethoven's 9th Symphony and so on, but you shouldn't believe them."

What interests me more is the claim the centre hole of the CD was made
the same size as the Dutch ten-cent coin.

As a kid I was always fascinated that the hole on a typical 45 RPM single was
the same size as a US silver dollar coin. (Yes, we had silver dollars when I
was a kid.)

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