Vals (was: Please stop the jargon explosion

Moved to tuning-math because it belongs here.

Gene Ward Smith wrote:

> A {2,3,7}-val would be fine, so long as you called it that; otherwise
> you would have no way of knowing <118 187 331| means the mapping
> applies to 2, 3 and 7 except by guessing. If "val", without
> qualification, is what you say then you know what the prime limit is
> by counting.

What about inharmonic timbres? If the "prime intervals" were empirically determined, can we still talk about vals? All your definitions require rationals. I work with prime intervals whose magnitudes happen to be the logarithms of prime numbers by default.

Graham