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A221363 Decimal expansion of the Pythagorean comma. 5

%I #27 Mar 15 2020 09:06:43

%S 1,0,1,3,6,4,3,2,6,4,7,7,0,5,0,7,8,1,2,5

%N Decimal expansion of the Pythagorean comma.

%C In musical tuning, the Pythagorean comma is 12 fifths / 7 octaves = (3/2)^12 / 2^7.

%D Larry Baggett, In the Dark on the Sunny Side: A Memoir of an Out-of-Sight Mathematician, Mathematical Association of America, 2012, p. 78.

%D Dave Benson, Music: A Mathematical Offering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006): 164.

%D J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995, p. 257.

%H Peter A. Frazer, <a href="http://www.midicode.com/tunings/temperament.shtml">Temperament</a>, Midicode, January 2010.

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Music, <a href="http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/music/CommaofPythagoras.html">Comma of Pythagoras</a>

%H Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma">Pythagorean comma</a>

%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_OEIS:_Section_Mu#music">OEIS index entry for music</a>

%H <a href="https://oeis.org/wiki/The_multi-faceted_reach_of_the_OEIS#Music">The multi-faceted reach of the OEIS: Music</a>

%F A229948/A229943 - _Omar E. Pol_, Oct 25 2013

%e 3^12 / 2^19 = 531441/524288 = 1.0136432647705078125

%t RealDigits[N[31441/524288, 50]][[1]]

%Y Cf. A005663, A005664, A010774, A046102.

%K nonn,cons,easy,fini,full

%O 1,4

%A _Jonathan Sondow_, Jan 19 2013

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