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9 limit

🔗Daniel Wolf <106232.3266@...>

1/3/1997 9:48:42 AM
Gary Morrison wrote:

'' But for whatever it's worth, I don't think that 9 would be considered a
limit on the grounds that it's not prime. ''


Since limit is Partch's term, let's go with his usage, and describe the
limit as the highest odd number. We may always use the Euler notation to
describe the set in terms of prime numbers. In Partch's harmonic style 9
does have a distinctive role independent of it prime factors.

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