Wendy Carlos beta scale

[Hahn, TD 116:]
> it's defined strictly as a local minimum of the
> root-mean-square error function that Wendy set up
> with 3/2, 5/4, 6/5, 7/4, and 11/8 as target intervals.

Does this same definition apply to the alpha and gamma
scales as well? What I'm asking is: are all three
scales based on local minima of the same function?

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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Joseph L Monzo wrote:
> Does this same definition apply to the alpha and gamma
> scales as well? What I'm asking is: are all three
> scales based on local minima of the same function?

Yep.

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