source file: m1541.txt
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:26:27 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: Cancelling out beats

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

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Paul Hahn wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, bram wrote:
>>        I know the beats can be essentially calculated using continued
>> fractions, so I'm guessing there's a rather straightforward way of
>> calculating, given a*sin(x) + b*sin(y), a and b being volumes and x and y
>> being wavelengths, there's a rather straightforward way of calculating a
>> bunch of other sin functions which when added will cancel out all the
>> beats.
> 
> I don't think Bill is canceling out the beats in an antinoise sense;

Actually, thinking further on it, I don't think that would even be
possible, considering that the beats don't actually exist physically,
but arise because of nonlinearities in the auditory system.

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