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16678
(Has this newsgroup moved or something?) 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 ... 24^2 = 70^2 We know that 35 is about 50 cents flat. So, 4900, is about 100 cents flat. 4900,...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 7, 2007
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16679
... cents ... 276, ... Not much to add, just that 6144/6125 is a comma here, which tempers out hemikleismic, and also that 300 is the 24th triangular number ...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 8, 2007
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16680
I'm afraid I haven't the foggiest what you're on about. I know what the leach lattice is... ... ?? English please. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Aug 8, 2007
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16681
... It is in fact, "Leech". Wikipedia's where to start, even though I read "Symmetry and the Monster" by Mark Ronan too. What's the "Leach" lattice? The...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 9, 2007
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16682
Paul H. wrote... ... 70 is the only integer that's the sum of squares of... consecutive integers or....? ... It's not coming up. ... How do 12-ET represent the...
Carl Lumma
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Aug 9, 2007
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16683
... 24 is the only integer, where Sigma{1,n} x^2 equals a perfect square, in this case 70 squared. n=24 of course. The trivial case is "1" (1^2=1^2) ... ...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 9, 2007
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16684
... OK. ... Oh, this stuff again. ... What's the 7/5 MOS? ... A list of things I intend to divide by 10. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Aug 9, 2007
4:34 pm
16685
... square, ... A dreamt a solution to this, but I forgot when I woke up. I don't know if I can justify throwing part of this in the denominator. However, I...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 9, 2007
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16686
... What of it? ... I'm asking you what 7/5 has to do with M12 or whatever. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Aug 10, 2007
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16687
... generator" ... Well, M12 (and Steiner (5,6,12) is all about pentachords and hexachords (actually "pentads" and "hexads"). Well, complements of pentachords...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 10, 2007
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16688
... The LL may be useful in modeling tone space. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Aug 10, 2007
5:28 pm
16689
... Right. It's a Lattice! SPLAG is the best resource, just rather difficult. Especially with no MS or PhD :) Lattices and packings go together of course...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 10, 2007
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16690
... Yes. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Aug 10, 2007
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16691
... Gene also can't figure out the relevsnce of all of this. In terms of simple groups, the Leech lattice is very closely associated to the Conway groups, but...
Gene Ward Smith
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Aug 11, 2007
11:10 pm
16692
I have been reading with interest the various messages on this topic, particularly those of Gene Ward Smith and Paul Erlich. I'm a research assistant sponsored...
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Aug 12, 2007
2:57 am
16693
... Very interesting. Here is a problem of musical interest, whcih I think could also be relevant to applications in computing. Given a prime p, there can be...
Gene Ward Smith
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Aug 12, 2007
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16694
... Do you think you could make a corrected, and perhaps extended, listing available? I would find a list of numerators in ascii format separated by commas...
Gene Ward Smith
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Aug 12, 2007
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16695
... I will be providing a set of tables for primes up to 127 and beyond via Richard Brent's website sometime soon, with a choice of comma- delimited lists and...
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Aug 12, 2007
12:37 pm
16696
... Yes, and as you add more primes, increasing the dimension, there are ever-increasing numbers of combinations that will form a basis, and mnany of these...
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Aug 12, 2007
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16697
... Modulo some confusion about "larger" and "smaller" yes--of course, the largest ratios have the smallest height--ie, the smallest numerators. ... Results...
Gene Ward Smith
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Aug 13, 2007
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16698
... The smaller primes are the most interesting for us....
Gene Ward Smith
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Aug 13, 2007
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16699
... of ... Darn. Nothing one can do with the Lorentzian lattice either? I was hoping that 0^ + 1^ ..24^2=70^2 had some relevance to 24-tET, or perhaps 12...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 13, 2007
2:38 pm
16700
... the ... tuning? Actually, I'd like to trim this way down. Forget the LL, Conway groups, etc. How about a just a discussion of pyramidal numbers? We've...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 13, 2007
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16701
... The pyramidal number function is pyr(n) = n(n+1)(2n+1)/6 and pyr(n)-1 = (n-1)(2n^2+5n+6). This isn't quite as well adapted as squares or triangles for...
Gene Ward Smith
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Aug 13, 2007
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16702 Gene Ward Smith
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16703
... Right, so "Without dividing by 3" in my "pattern" Obtain (2n+1)(n+1)(n/2) for even (2n+1)(n)((n+1)/2) for odd This equals n^3 + (3/2)n^2 + (1/2)n Therefore...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 13, 2007
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16704
... <phjelmstad@> ... producing ... Missed this post. Thanks, are there perhaps triangular pyramidal numbers, or squared pyramidal numbers, or squared...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Aug 13, 2007
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16705
Here are the complete lists for primes up to 31. Each group corresponds to a specific prime, P. It is a list of all the integers S having the property that...
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Aug 13, 2007
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16706
... Square pyramidal numbers, of course, we know about. Both square and triangular pyramidal numbers give rise to an elliptic curve, which by Mordell's theorem...
Gene Ward Smith
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Aug 13, 2007
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16707
... So ... We already knew pyr(1) and pyr(24) are the only square pyramidal numbers. It looks like pyr(1), pyr(5), pyr(6) and pyr(85) are the only triangular...
Gene Ward Smith
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