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Keenan's musical complexity formula

🔗Joseph L Monzo <monz@xxxx.xxxx>

3/4/1999 8:58:28 PM

> Certainly the next step is to get the
> complexity of a ratio from its numerator
> and denominator, but I'm unclear whether
> to multiply them, or take the maximum value
> (as is normally done with odd or prime limits)

Since the ratio can be represented by the
same series you use in your formula (the prime
factors), it seems to me that you should just
use negative exponents for the factors of the
denominator, and multiply all the factors together.

- Monzo
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