source file: m1443.txt
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:50:20 -0400

Subject: RE: Fokker's Matrices

From: "Paul H. Erlich" <PErlich@Acadian-Asset.com>

>>            My first question would be which ETs can and cannot be
>> generated by this procedure

>You can generate any damn ET you want this way, although sometimes the
>unisons/commas chosen to vanish aren't very small.

>>                             and by analagous procedures with axes 5/3
>> and 3, or 5/3 and 5,

>Since the space spanned by 5/3 and 3 or 5/3 and 5 is the same one
>spanned by 3 and 5, any ET generable by one should be generable by the
>others, with the appropriate matrix transformations.

What if you add the restriction that the resulting ET can have no better
approximations of the just intervals than the ones represented by one
step along the axes? I guess I had that in the back of my mind when I
asked the above questions.