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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 09:16:38 -0700

Subject: Re: Chinese 12TET - overkill?

From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>

On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Michael Wathen 556-9565 wrote:
> As for the post from our pool player (I don't have his name either only
> his Email address) which gave the formula for the twelfth with the
> powers of eleven,

I guess that would be me.

>                   this formula is a direct result of Newton's Method
> hence it requires the knowledge of Calculus.  I believe that the same
> could be said about Manuel Op de Coul's formula.

Nnnnnooooo, I don't think so.  All it really takes is the ability to
expand the nth power of a binomial (or just the first two terms,
actually)--a little algebra, no calculus required.

--pH (manynote@library.wustl.edu or http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote)
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