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Re: Prime ratios

🔗Robert Walker <robert_walker@rcwalker.freeserve.co.uk>

1/31/2001 8:28:32 AM

Hi Jacky,

Just to say - keep up the exploring of large prime ratios!

I'm sure that's the way new things are often discovered, following an idea that is
innovative, and has its own slightly off-the-beaten-track logic.

Then maybe much later on you may find out why it is a fruitful avenue to explore, even if
you can't rightly explain now.

Plus even if you don't find anything like that, if one finds a particular way of
representing things inspiring, then one has enthusiasm to find nice and interesting
results with it anyway.

Can be much more fun and interesting than if one only tries out ideas that one can explain
all the reasons for in advance.

I agree that if you come up with the same temperaments using prime ratios and
using logarithmic style notation or factorisable numbers, then you are exploring
the same region, but you are doing it with a novel map and compass!

May lead you to things that the logarithmic map and compass take one right past without
even noticing.

I look forward to hearing what else you come up with using large prime ratios.

Robert