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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by Florin_Andrei on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:03PM (#12781181)
Maybe if your "electronics" are vacuum tubes and relays.

In the digital domain it's not an issue at all.

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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by jamiek88 on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:35PM (#12781508)
Electronic =/= digital.

It is electronic gating to bring down a 1khz signal. Division and multiplication to a prime number is pretty hard...

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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by T-hawk on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:53AM (#12785631)
But there's nothing special about the 1k signal either, because a second is arbitrary. The original signal might have been 878 Hz instead (or equivalently 1000 cycles / 1.139 seconds which is no more or less privileged than 1000 cycles / 1.000 seconds) and then the gating to 439 is easy.
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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by GFK_of_xmaspast on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:02PM (#12782868)
What do you think they were using in 1939.
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