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Reply to John Clough

🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@xxx.xxxx>

2/12/1999 10:51:03 PM

>Rick Sanford and Carl Lumma recently mentioned Myhill's property.
>Gerald Myerson and I defined Myhill's property (MP) for an artbitrary
>set of numbers mod n: iff every generic interval appears in
>exactly two sizes, the set is said to have MP. A generic interval
>is what we think of musically as a 2nd, 3rd, etc. (but excluding the
>prime or modular interval itself). For example,
>the set {0, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11} in mod 12 qualifies as MP.

Thanks! Scala just keeps getting more useful...