99 Bottles of Beer

99 Bottles of Beer (99 bottles of beer ) is a folk song that is sung in the U.S. and Canada, particularly for long trips and leans against the British nursery rhyme Ten Green Bottles. It follows the pattern:

Ninety -nine bottles of beer on the wall, ( Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall ) Ninety -nine bottles of beer. ( Ninety-nine bottles of beer. ) Take one down, pass it around, ( Take one down, reaching her around ) Ninety -eight bottles of beer on the wall. ( Ninety-eight bottles of beer on the wall. )

The song is repeated with less and less bottles to this verse:

One ( last) bottle of beer on the wall, ( A (last) bottle of beer on the wall ) One ( last) bottle of beer. Take it down, pass it around, No (more) bottles of beer on the wall. ( No bottles of beer (more) on the wall. )

Sometimes the word "beer" is replaced when it is sung by groups who perceive the consumption of alcohol as inappropriate.

Variants

To extend the time Sing the song can be supplemented by:

No (more) bottles of beer on the wall, No (more) bottles of beer. Go to the store and buy some more, ( go to the store and buy more ) Ninety -nine bottles of beer on the wall.

Donald Byrd has dozens of versions of the song collected that are mathematically inspired and were devised by him and others. Byrd says the collection to an educational and entertaining value. Among them:

• " Infinite bottles of beer on the wall" ( infinitely many bottles of beer): If a bottle, still remain infinitely many.
• " Aleph - null bottles of beer on the wall": Aleph Zero is the smallest infinite cardinal number as the cardinality of the natural numbers.
• " Uncountable bottles of beer on the wall" ( uncountably many bottles of beer): Fallen countably many bottles to remain still uncountably many.

References in science

Donald E. Knuth proved in -joke - article The Complexity of Songs that the song has a complexity of.

Similar to the Hello world program, the text is also like programmed.

Credentials

• Drinking Song