didn't Janmes just recently post a Partch patch? i think that is what you are after?? On Dec 20, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Ph.E wrote:
James McCartney wrote:On Dec 20, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Ph.E wrote:James McCartney wrote:On Dec 20, 2004, at 6:17 AM, Ph.E wrote:Would it be possible to add a function in SC which could convert a decimal into a fractional?For example, 1.125 --> 9/8SC does not have rational numbers as a data type.But music has....I'm not sure what your point is.I mean that rational numbers are very used in music theory to represent music intervals. 8/7 is more readable than 1.1428571428570.....Thus, it would be interesting to add them to the data types already existing in SC, so that we can calculate music scales by using only these ratios, and convert/approximate easily decimal numbers into rational numbers.Ph. _______________________________________________ sc-users mailing list sc-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/sc-users