All those numbers

Can you help me out here ?
I'm very interested in all this tuning buisness but am rather flumoxed by
the numbers, e.g.
>__Ascending forms__>Main notes are:
>>
>>(1) {C:[1/1] , G:3/2 , D:9/8, A:27/16 , E:81/64 , B:243/128 }
>
>Rewritting it out becomes:
> C-9/8-D-9/8-E-(16/15)-(F)-(10/9)-G-9/8-A-9/8-B-(16/15)-(C')
>
> 1/1 9/8 81/64 (27/20?) 3/2 27/16 243/128 (81/40?)
Can anyone explain how this all works and how ican set up such scales on
my keyboard/sampler ?

thanking you,

Jem Finer
Kentish Town
London NW5




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