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Re: A Guide for Cantor Cranks

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From: MoeBlee
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:31
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On Mar 13, 4:03 pm, Transfer Principle <lwal...@lausd.net> wrote:
>
> Every time someone mentions "2+2=4," someone else usually
> mentions piano interval arithmetic, in which a major 2nd
> plus a major 2nd is a major 3rd. For some reason, those on
> the standard side are _more_ willing to accept a theory in
> which 2+2 is something other than 4 (such as 3, for pianos)
> than they would accept a theory where there are as many
> reals as naturals.

Oh, come on! I'm not even going to BOTHER explaining the irrelevance
of your example about the terminology of musical intervals.

Fun with music: A major second and a major second and major second is
an augmented fourth. So 2+2+2 = =4.5 ??? Come on, such things have
nothing to do with the confusions of cranks.

Why can't you just tell RussellE that he's wrong?

MoeBlee
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From: MoeBlee <jazzmobe@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.logic,sci.math,aus.science
Subject: Re: A Guide for Cantor Cranks
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