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Re:Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People by TheOtherDave on Saturday October 19, 2019 @12:19PM (#21299213)
Because music theory doesn't know how numbers work. The interval of A(440Hz) to A(440Hz) is "1" in music theory even though it's 0 in literally every other context ever in the history of everything. I mean, if they're going to use a bunch of mathematical terminology, the least they can do is count right.
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Re:Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People by andrepd on Saturday October 19, 2019 @10:09PM (#21301936)
Seriously? Music theory is a mess because intervals are counted from 1 and not from 0?

>literally every other context ever in the history of everything

Have you met a single non-programmer that counts in everyday life starting on 0? Do you even start counting with your fingers from 0?

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Re:Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People by posterboy on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:35PM (#21300621)
It's not a "1", it's a "prime" and the root of that word is an ordinal (whence "first") not a cardinal. There is no zero'th ordinal. There is just "none", which implies that A to A is simply not an interval.
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