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degrees of freedom in an "ultimate scale" search

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@lumma.org>

3/16/2012 12:02:33 PM

Here's one way to count these up. The result is 12 bits or
about 4,000 different answers. Of course the actual number
of unique answers is likely to be far smaller. I suppose gold
medalists are another way to look at this.

prime limit (5-13) = 2 bits
temperament rank (1 or 2) = 1 bit
badness (Cangwu or logflat) = 1 bit
badness parameter = 3 bits*
TE or POTE error? = 1 bit
scale size = 4 bits**

* Cangwu thresholds in 4-cent (JND) bins from 2-30 cents
logflat complexity <= 6, 9, 15, 29, 59, 126, 277, or 612 notes/oct

** MOS series position with first MOS >= 5 notes/oct @ position 1

-Carl