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Posted by: Neophile 4 months ago

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The connection between music and mathematics has fascinated scholars for centuries. More than 200 years ago Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ratios.

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libsRfunny4 months ago

Einstein became an accomplished musician at a young age after his mother showed him how math applied to music.
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OnionHead4 months ago

There used to be a MIDI program where you could plug different values into an equation, and the algorithm would turn out 16 bars of a tune. You could switch between tonal and atonal variations.
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