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16968
Hi Graham, ... JSTOR's generous license allows *any* visitor to an institution which has a JSTOR account (i.e., a library) to access the complete articles. ...
monz
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Mar 1, 2008
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16969
... I don't think that's very generous. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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16970
... that's due to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_noticeable_difference limit of the human ear in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_%28music%29 ...
Andreas Sparschuh
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16971
... So how is that generous on the part of JSTOR? The institutions have to pay for that access. From what I know of academic pricing, they probably have to...
Graham Breed
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Mar 2, 2008
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16972
I'm working on a PDF about my proof of completeness of certain searches for rank 2 temperaments. I explained it here a couple of years ago but I don't think...
Graham Breed
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Mar 3, 2008
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16973
... What's the difference between these files (I can see a difference, but what does it ammount to)? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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16974
... "this is generally true for all rank 2 temperament." Did you mean "temperaments" there? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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16975
... The lattice version is about minimizing a single function that takes a free parameter. The first one is also about minimizing badness, but within a...
Graham Breed
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Mar 4, 2008
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16976
... Yes. Or maybe "any" and I got the two phrases mixed up. Graham...
Graham Breed
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16977
... For the 11-limit temperament ... I don't know a specific name, but the 7-limit version has been called "semisept". Of the other 11-limit "semisept"...
Herman Miller
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16978
... I take it the "sept" refers to the 7-limit. In that case would an 11-limit extension be "semiundec"? ... Thank you! No temperament class is too obscure...
Graham Breed
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Mar 4, 2008
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16979
... You'd have to ask Gene about the "sept". It could be that the generator is half of the tempered interval 12/7. ... Yes, and both are from Gene Ward Smith....
Herman Miller
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16980
... Unfortunately he's out playing with his science fiction friends. At least that's the last I heard. ... I was a bit dismissive of Harry. Maybe it is a...
Graham Breed
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16981
... Incidentally, one reason for keeping summary.pdf is that I can't prove that the problem in lattice.pdf is properly bounded. So lattice.pdf is simpler and...
Graham Breed
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Mar 4, 2008
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16982
... Maybe they should be combined into a single file, along with this note... -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Mar 4, 2008
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16983
... Yes, but it's supposed to be simple, and you don't make something simpler by adding to it. Graham...
Graham Breed
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Mar 4, 2008
5:17 am
16984
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the tuning-math group. File : /Paul...
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16985
Well, Here is my paper so far. I will post the Appendices to my Files Section. For now, just for fun, Notice that in 22-tET the Multiplicative Modulo Group...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Mar 5, 2008
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16986
I've been playing with generalized keyboard layouts for regular temperaments, and it occurs to me there ought to be some way to specify desired properties...
Herman Miller
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Mar 7, 2008
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16987
... This is the kind of thing the X System team are looking at. Do you have an X_System.pdf anywhere? As I don't think it's formally published yet I should be...
Graham Breed
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Mar 7, 2008
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16988
... In fact I'd guess it would tend to come out of good temperaments just with Gene's approach ...
Carl Lumma
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16989
The PDF in question is now finished bar corrections. http://x31eq.com/complete.pdf I've also compiled a version that puts everything in one column which you...
Graham Breed
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Mar 7, 2008
12:09 pm
16990
... I find I get lost very rapidly :( Anyway, there's an "of" on line 6 of page 2 that should be an "or". Graham...
Graham Breed
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Mar 7, 2008
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16991
... Section. ... Thanks. I am finding more typos myself. The paper needs a lot of work, but I am confident I have some good ideas. (The last paper I wrote was...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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16992
... Well, the vectors I'm trying to optimize aren't all linearly independent of each other. It occurs to me though that a brute force search might not be as...
Herman Miller
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Mar 8, 2008
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16993
... A layout can be defined by two linearly independent vectors. But yes, the two dimensional case isn't so difficult once you've chosen your temperament class...
Graham Breed
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Mar 10, 2008
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16994
I gave a badness function in http://x31eq.com/primerr.pdf that you could write as B**2 = det(<M|A_k|M> + (1 - epsilon**2)<M|A_B - A_k|M>) ... <H|A_k|H> Where...
Graham Breed
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Mar 10, 2008
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16995
... Bracketed operators should define the squares of measures, so that should have been B(E_k)**2 = k**2 E_k**2 + B**2 For the residual badness it gets simpler...
Graham Breed
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Mar 10, 2008
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16996
Here's something I found when browsing a Wikipedia mirror: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Pseudo-polynomial_time The best temperament finding algorithms...
Graham Breed
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Mar 12, 2008
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16997
Hindoo scale: sa = 1 ri = 256/243, 16/15 = (81/80) x (256/243) Ri = 10/9, 9/8 = (81/80) x (10/9) ga = 32/27, 6/5 = (81/80) x (32/27) Ga = 5/4, 81/64 = (81/80)...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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