source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:43:37 +0100 Subject: RE: Thrice the Severity From: "Paul H. Erlich" >>1. If we detune by hertz, a direct arithmatic variation in beating occurs, >>right? > >Right. > >>2. Detune in cents and you say we get a "linear" change in beating? >>"Linear" and "geometric" are the same? > >For a small detuning, the cents deviation is a linear function of the Hertz >deviation. Only for large detuning does the departure from linearity become >important. > >>3. For detuning in cents sqaured... > >>>>>it means that our intervals get worse exponentially. >>> >>>>You mean quadratically (very different!). > >>Could you explain the difference? > >If the deviation is represented by d, a quadratic function of d would be >proportional to d^2. An exponential function of d is e^d, or any constant >raised to the d power. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) Subject: Re: next step in tunings PostedDate: 25-11-97 11:04:06 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 25-11-97 11:02:38-25-11-97 11:02:39,25-11-97 11:02:40-25-11-97 11:02:41 DeliveredDate: 25-11-97 11:02:41 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125655A.00372811; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:02:27 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00572; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:04:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:04:06 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00567 Received: (qmail 6286 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1997 06:59:44 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Nov 1997 06:59:44 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu