question for Jacky re:scales

>These scales are
>constructed by iteratively dividing the cents values for the first
>constant interval by itself

This is slightly unclear. dividing a cents value by itself results in 1,
right? do you mean, taking a cents value X, and then taking a ratio
1200/X, and dividng X by 1200/X ?

***From: Christopher Bailey******************
http://music.columbia.edu/~chris
**********************************************

Christopher,

Hello!

Yes, you are right! In my attempt to make it as simple as possible I
actually created unexpected ambiguity!

This ambiguity was also communicated to me privately by other
listies, so I wrote a clarification here:

/tuning/topicId_18578.html#18612

And what I intended to convey was to divide the cents values by the
constant iteratively.

Thanks!

Jacky Ligon

P.S. My apologies to you an all for the intensities this week!

--- In tuning@y..., Christopher Bailey <cb202@c...> wrote:
> >These scales are
> >constructed by iteratively dividing the cents values for the first
> >constant interval by itself
>
> This is slightly unclear. dividing a cents value by itself results
in 1,
> right? do you mean, taking a cents value X, and then taking a
ratio
> 1200/X, and dividng X by 1200/X ?
>
> ***From: Christopher Bailey******************
> http://music.columbia.edu/~chris
> **********************************************