source file: mills2.txt
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 23:36:34 -0700

Subject: RE: 12-tet in China

From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com>

> most 
> of the fascination with the twelfth root of two was <rooted> in the problem
> of actually calculating these numbers.  It was a considerable task that 
> required strange algorithms to give approximations. 

   Of course, all you need to calculate these things to arbitrary precision is
ln(x), e^x, multiplication, and division.  Anybody know when the Chinese
discovered the Taylor series (or the equivalent) for ln(x) and e^x?  


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