Researchers from Canada and the U.S. are using math to unravel one of the greatest musical mysteries of the modern era: Who wrote sa国际传媒淚n My Life,sa国际传媒� a nostalgic rock ballad on the Beatlessa国际传媒� 1965 album sa国际传媒淩ubber Soul.sa国际传媒�

Itsa国际传媒檚 a song both John Lennon and Paul McCartney have laid claim to, sparking an enduring debate on the authorship of the melody.

But a new statistical model developed by researchers at Dalhousie and Harvard universities that was used to analyze multiple Lennon-McCartney songs has concluded that Lennon likely penned sa国际传媒淚n My Life.sa国际传媒�

Jason Brown, a mathematics professor at Dalhousie, says the researchers analyzed the Beatles music using five main categories sa国际传媒� melody notes, sequences of notes, chords, pairs of chords and melodic contour. Each category was then further broken down, resulting in 149 categories for data collection.

He says the model, which is 80 per cent accurate, found a 98 per cent probability that Lennon write sa国际传媒淚n My Life.sa国际传媒�

The Canadian Press

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