Re: question about the documentation

[Hans Aberg]

On 12 May 2007, at 20:08, Valentin Villenave wrote:

> >  while translating I found this sentence in the Docs Version  
> > 2.11.23 chapter
> > 6.1.7:
>
> >  What does the fifth do here? Wouldn't it be better to say:  
> > "inside the same
> > octave" or something like this?  It seems I don't understand this  
> > passage.
> > Why is it suddenly a fifth and not a fourth anymore?
>
> In French, we translated "within a fifth" by "moins d'une quinte"
> ("less than a fifth" in English) , which is maybe more easily
> understandable...

In English, x positive means x > 0 (0 excluded), but in several other  
languages (German, French, Swedish), it means x >= 0 (0 included). In  
order to get x >= 0 in English, one has to say: x is non-negative.  
Therefore, doubling with mathematical notation is safest.

  Hans Aberg