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16130
... Ok, I guess I can take your word for it. I think it would be nice if 12 weren't put in to the calculation. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Mar 1, 2007
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16131
... I only put it into one calculation. There's the increasing size of the integral: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A117538 2, 5, 7, 12, 19, 31,...
Gene Ward Smith
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16132
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A117536 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. My head just exploded. Is it possible to explain why these pop out of the Riemann...
Keenan Pepper
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Mar 1, 2007
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16133
... I guess the Riemann-Siegal formula for Z(t) would be a good place to start. Or simply take the zeta function in the half-plane with real part greater than...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 2, 2007
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16134
... I missed this somehow. ... No integral in this one. ... Ditto. ... This is the one I was referring to. It's also the best of the lot as far as ETs, except...
Carl Lumma
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16135
... I guess what's really needed is a rate of growth estimate for these things, or an omega theorem (theorem about something exceeding a given value infinitely...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 2, 2007
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16136
... behavior ... is ... the ... This isn't much compared to the Riemann Zeta thread, (which is how I got involved in the newsgroup, BTW) but just to finish off...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Mar 3, 2007
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16137
... system Corrected this grid too: (Row 6, D4) ... Paul Hj...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Mar 3, 2007
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16138
... (t) ... et. ... of ... 1395, ... Gene, in the last list, when you say midpoint, is it the only possible integer value between the zeros of z(x)? (For which...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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16139
... Right. At most one integer value appears in the interval. (For which ... Right, that's it. I wrote that Wikipedia article just so as to have the Z function...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 3, 2007
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16140
With Dave Keenan's new Sagittal spreadsheet, I've started taking another look at notating regular temperaments. One of the temperaments that's always been a...
Herman Miller
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Mar 3, 2007
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16141
... I put a start on this. I'm doing a Graham-style thing with the errors of primes in ETs. I can print the n best (as in least badness) ETs under different...
Carl Lumma
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Mar 4, 2007
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16142
Eventually I'll print instead series of ETs of decreasing badness. But I thought this might be a better way to play with it for now. -C....
Carl Lumma
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Mar 4, 2007
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16143
A little on how to read these. ... I think Graham learned some stuff about these different choices. I should try to read his paper again now. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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16144
... another ... accidentals ... Hi Herman, That's beautiful. Wonderful to see the information being put to use so quickly. Sorry I took so long to finish it. I...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 4, 2007
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16145
Of course you have to use the "Show message option/Use fixed width font" thing to see what I'm talking about in my previous message in this thread. -- Dave K...
Dave Keenan
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16146
Hi Dave, ... Does this include cases where the period is a fraction of the octave? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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16147
... another ... that's ... accidentals ... notate ... into ... But ... Could you put in a key? It would be nice if this was translated into something where a...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 4, 2007
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16148
... be ... What you are calling "luna" I was still calling semithirds just now over on tuning. Should I consider names here ...
Gene Ward Smith
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16149
... I don't have a clue what you are doing. Is there a prime limit 540 looks outstanding in? I went up to the 101-limit and the best I found, which I would...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 4, 2007
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16150
... I'm making a start now. First sentence of 1.2 - this only applies to regular temperaments, right? Taking the best approximations of primes in an ET, we...
Carl Lumma
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Mar 4, 2007
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16151
... The 40th prime is 173. If you look for ETs < 1201 in the 173-limit, 540 should win on error * complexity, where complexity = 540^(40/39) and error = the...
Carl Lumma
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Mar 4, 2007
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16152
... Some further points (1) Why bring up pre-weighting? (2) Table 3 is kind of confusing if you are not used to seeing a mapping/val presented thusly. (3) It...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 4, 2007
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16153
... Understandable. I like the pure notation because the size of the symbol gives you a rough idea of how big the interval is, and I can never remember the...
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Mar 4, 2007
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16154
... I think pretty much all of these are the names from Paul's paper without the -pent and -sept suffixes (if any). I don't recall if I've seen "luna" in any...
Herman Miller
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16155
... I can never remember the single ascii symbols; they're pretty much arbitrary and you have to memorize each one. Besides, without using the mythological...
Herman Miller
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Mar 5, 2007
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16156
... Hi Carl, Good point! I guess I can retrospectively claim to have been using the term linear temperament in the strict Erlich/Secor manner. ;-) For...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 5, 2007
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16157
... Drat, you got me there. I've been meaning to read that term the strict way ever since Paul beat me up over it. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in still...
Carl Lumma
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Mar 5, 2007
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16158
I've put this up: http://www.xenharmony.org/inverses.htm My hope is that Graham will find it worth referencing, and people in general useful to know....
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 5, 2007
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16159
... The point of going up to the 173-limit is to see if the results converge on the zeta stuff. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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