Re:Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013)
by jacobolus on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:57PM
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The whole point of preferred numbers is fitting a rough logarithmic scale to a positional (e.g. decimal) number system.
For an alternative let me recommend just using binary logarithms written in base 12. (So that 1 corresponds to doubling, 1.7 corresponds pretty closely to tripling, and 2.4 corresponds roughly to quintupling. i.e. 0.1 (base 12) is an equal-tempered semitone.
For an alternative let me recommend just using binary logarithms written in base 12. (So that 1 corresponds to doubling, 1.7 corresponds pretty closely to tripling, and 2.4 corresponds roughly to quintupling. i.e. 0.1 (base 12) is an equal-tempered semitone.