Early "computing" discovery.

Might this discovery help to explain the prevailing preference for integer ratios in earlier cultures e.g. Ancient Roman and Greek musical tuning?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6191462.stm

Charles Lucy -lucy@lucytune.com

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Charles Lucy <lucy@...> wrote:
>
> Might this discovery help to explain the prevailing preference for
> integer ratios in earlier cultures e.g. Ancient Roman and Greek
> musical tuning?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6191462.stm

Seems more like a chicken/egg or it's-all-one kind of thing to me:
discovering and measuring patterns in nature, using them as tools and
building tools in their image.

-Cameron Bobro