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Playing bar games
‘You sneer too soon at David Rodrick for suggesting the Solidac may have been used to randomise the bars of a piece of music by Mozart,’ says Mike Glendinning. ‘In fact, there is a “musical dice game” musikalisches Wuerfelspiel) often attributed to Mozart that consists of separate bars of a minuet to be combined depending on throws of the dice.’
Actually we weren’t sneering at David. We were saying that whether it was Mozart or Solidac that got to it first, what is the point of doing it? A question which, if programmers asked it more often, could halve the size of the internet overnight. But then again, what would we write about?
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