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From: Tim Merrigan <tppm@rr.ca.com>
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Subject: Re: Longest plan
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:33:30 -0800
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On 11/19/2024 8:05 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> I was just reading about the fact that Ben Franklin had a trust fund
> he intended to be liquidated 200 years after his death.  And it was.
> 
> That makes me wonder what was the slowest plan that has ever been
> successfully carried out according to schedule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longplayer

Longplayer is a very long piece of music by British composer and 
musician Jem Finer which is composed to play for 1000 years without 
looping. It started to play at midnight on 1 January 2000, and if all 
goes as planned, it will continue without repetition until 31 December 
2999.

I got to this after looking up John Cage's "As Slow as Possible".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible

Which is, apparently, only the second longest piece of music.


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