source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 16:34:38 -0700 Subject: Chinese 12TET - overkill? From: Johnny Klonaris It's been an interesting discussion on whether or not Prince Tsai-Yu could have done the math.... >>About 1595, Prince Tsai-Yu" calculated the 12th roots of 2 to 9 significant >>figures on a fundamental of 1,000,000,000. >> >>--John > >That's hard to believe. Nope. All posters I've seen seemed to have missed a simple solution: all that is needed to calculate the 12th or any other root is multiplication and some time. Successive approximation might seem like a tedious method in this day and age, but 12 multiplications will tell you if you're close - and 12 more will tell you if your next guess is closer or not. -- Johnny Klonaris / HP/ISD 101T, 1266 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Phone: (hp telnet)/(408) 746-5465 | "Patriotism is often an arbitrary email: johnny@ptp.hp.com | veneration of real estate above CIS: 75036,1351 | principles." - George Jean Nathan Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 05:44 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA16075; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:43:53 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:43:53 -0700 Message-Id: <951017034145_71670.2576_HHB53-6@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu