Re: Fokker's Table

Paul: As I recall, Erv and I sent Fokker a very large set of ratios
generated by computer. The 3's limit was about 20 steps up and down from
1/1, the 5's about 12, the 7's about 8 and the higher primes
proportionally less (up to the 41st). To limit the size of the table,
the complexity of each interval limited to 60, though I did smaller
tables as well. Complexity was defined as the sum of the product of each
prime times the absolute value of its exponent.

We also sent him our ET tables, all the ET's from 5 to 120-tet plus a
few extras such as 144, 171, etc. computed to 8 places (IIRC) with
string lengths, decimals, and hz (on A440, C264, C256) as well. These
computations were done on a large CDC machine in FORTRAN at UCSD in
1967-68. Times have changed!

--John