Re: A China-Sumer connection

From: Dylan Sung (dylanwhs.tsktsktsk_at_pacific.net.hk)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:52:25 -0000

"Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:4226A249.2DAC@alphalink.com.au...
> Comm wrote:
>> You can divide A 440
>> in half - IF YOU KNOW A is 440.
>
> And if you think A is 420 you can't divide 420 in half, I suppose.
> At least, not without the help the Abominable one, Musarus, and his
> minions, the anecdotal Annedoti.
>
> Please tell us Oannes's phone number, for when, next time, we wish to
> divide 2 into halves, or to indulge into such arcane mathematical
> manipulations as dividing three into thirds. Ta.

Well, reading about the physics of vibration and frequency may be helpful
for the empirical relationship between one note and another.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/U11L4d.html

Dyl.

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