| ▲ | waffletower 2 days ago |
| I can see a precision argument for binary represented frequencies. A systems programmer would value this. A musician would not. |
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| ▲ | fsckboy 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| musicians use numbering systems that are actually far more confused than anything discussed here. how many notes in an OCTave? "do re mi fa so la ti do" is eight, but that last do is part of the next octave, so an OCTave is 7 notes. (if we count transitions, same thing, starting at the first zero do, re is 1, ... again 7. the same and even more confusion is engendered when talking about "fifths" etc. |
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| ▲ | waffletower 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The 7 note scale you suggest (do re mi fa so la ti do) is comprised of different intervals (2 2 1 2 2 2 1) in the 12-fold equal tempered scale. There are infinite ways of exploring an octave in music, but unfortunately listener demand for such exploration is near infinitesimal. | | |
| ▲ | fsckboy 2 days ago | parent [-] | | don't you mean 11-fold? ... oh wait, they aren't even consistent | | |
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| ▲ | jltsiren 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can blame the Romans for that, as they practiced inclusive counting. Their market days occurring once every 8 days were called nundinae, because the next market day was the ninth day from the previous one. (And by the same logic, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day.) |
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| ▲ | AlotOfReading 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Musicians often use equal temperament, so they have their own numerical crimes to answer for. |
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| ▲ | waffletower 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Touché, appropriate to describe near compulsory equal temperament (ala MIDI) as a crime. |
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