source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:07:31 -0800 Subject: RE: Subharmonic chords From: PAULE Wait a minute, Daniel, how can your average deviation be negative? I want to know the average ABSOLUTE deviation, or the root mean square deviation if you prefer. If you throw enough darts at a dartboard, the "average" position is the bullseye, but that doesn't mean you ever came close to the bullseye. If your average position with the red darts was closer to the bullseye than with the blue darts, you could have still been much closer to the bullseye on the average throw of a blue dart than on the average throw of a red dart. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:16 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA13729; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:16:42 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA13635 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA24689; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:16:38 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:16:38 -0800 Message-Id: <32E8DFD6.50AE@mag.linz.at> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu