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need definition: copoptimal

🔗monz <monz@attglobal.net>

7/17/2004 11:24:27 AM

someone please write a definition of copoptimal for
inclusion into the Encyclopaedia.

-monz

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

7/17/2004 12:51:25 PM

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@a...> wrote:

> someone please write a definition of copoptimal for
> inclusion into the Encyclopaedia.

A generator is "copoptimal if" it is poptimal for more than one odd
limit. For instance, for a 7-limit temperament we might wish for one
poptimal in both the 7 and 9 odd limits; if one exists it would be 7&9
copoptimal, or simply copoptimal if the meaning is clear by context.