Re: Should we be touching goops?

[David Kastrup]

Luca Fascione <l.fascione@gmail.com> writes:

> Oh yes absolutely, the growth is normally much slower than worse case
> unless the addends come from really weird-ass distributions, no doubt.
> Round to even helps a lot with that
>
> And indeed our numbers not coming from measurements will in practice only
> have low significant bits in a handful of specific patterns (and all
> divides by power of two have a lot lot of low significant zeroes, which
> further helps)

There is no "low significance" for answering the question whether two
music events are simultaneous or not and could share a stem.

> (Do you guys have a sense in practice how rare "odd" divisor groupings
> are?  It seems like anything that's not a triplet or maybe a
> quintuplet would be real rare, no?)

Frequent enough that we would want to support it.  Sextuplets are pretty
frequent (and differ in musical accent from identically timed triplets).

-- 
David Kastrup