source file: m1583.txt
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:15:59 -0600 (CST)

Subject: Re: LARGE & small semitones.

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

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Paul Hahn wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Robin Perry wrote:
>> The 200th root of 2 (6 cents) raised to the 15th power is 90 cents.
>> The 200th root of 2 raised to the 19th power is 114 cents.
>> 
>> Combinations of these two provide very close approximations to intervals 
>> up to 10/9.
> 
> Robin: try units of the 171th root of 2, and see how well those
> intervals are approximated.

Reading Robin's message again, I think I may have misunderstood the
thrust of it--the 200th root of 2 doesn't appear to be as important as
I'd originally thought.  Rather, Robin seems to have discovered the same
septimal schisma that Margo Schulter just brought up a week or two ago.

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