Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

[David Kastrup]

Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:

> 2012/10/9 Keith OHara <address@hidden>:
>> Currently, everyone who thinks of a triplet as a 3:2 ratio, 3 notes in the
>> usual time for 2, suffers similar confusion when trying to remember \times
>> 2/3.  Triplets are usually written with a simple 3, but 4-note-tuplets are
>> often designated 4:3 for clarity, while LilyPond requires the reversed
>> fraction in \times 3/4 {}
>
> Here come Spanish students again.
> I can think in \times <fraction> {} as a mathematical expression and
> it has sense, because "times" means multiply,

How does a mathematician explain the difference between \times 2/3 and
\times 4/6 ?

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David Kastrup