TUNING digest 978

Matt Nathan wrote:
>
> I also like sometimes to measure intervals in fractions of an octave,
> such as 3/2 ~0.58496 octaves. This helps detwelvulate (thanks Ivor)
> the sense that you get from measuring intervals in cents.

I think this unit is very important and its use should be promoted.
Mark Lindley and Ronald Turner-Smith, in their excellent book
"Mathematical Models of Musical Scales: A New Approach" (actually about
tunings, not scales, I would say) use the unit "mil" (one thousandth of
an octave) extensively. The fact that a mil is 1.2 cents should make
the transition from cents to mils usage somewhat easy.

Ben Denckla

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