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Re: irrational meters


From: Hans Åberg
Subject: Re: irrational meters
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:52:27 +0100

> On 17 Jan 2023, at 15:20, Silvain Dupertuis <silvain-dupertuis@bluewin.ch> 
> wrote:
> 
> I wonder about the term “irrational” meter. Should not we say “irregular” ??
> as in mathematics, an irrational number is a number which cannot be 
> represented as a fraction...

The denominator is not a power of two. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature#Irrational_meters





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