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by tambarskjelve 553 days ago
I understand music and mathematics were much more closely related historically, to some extent practically regarded as the same subject, but new discoveries about this relationship are still happening in our time. One interesting finding is that the the Pythagoeran comma, i.e. tiny interval between to enharmonically equivalent notes can be constructed geometrically: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-022-10260-4