Continued Fraction Problems

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Drew Skyfyre wrote:
> 2)In Dunne's excursion into using the maj 3rd (5/4) for the computation
> (on how many notes could be there in an ET octave), where ( log[2](5/4) =
> log[2](5) - log[2](4) )He says "since log[2](4) is an integer,the crux of
> the approximation is
> that of log[2](5) . Why is log [2](4) to be ignored ?

Because 4/1 is a double octave, and (guessing here since I haven't read
the book) if he's only considering integral ETs, octaves will always be
perfect and will not affect the errors/deviations that he's computing.

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