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8note on Aug 22, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: We don't know how bad most things are nor precisel...

That says the issue though. The only time you can tune a piano is when the frequency is 0 - that is, that there's no sound being played

recursive on Aug 22, 2024 [–]

Doesn't mean that. 2^0 is non-zero. I interpret it to mean that every note must have the same non-zero frequency. In other words, the ratio between any two notes is 2^0 = 1.

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