music theory: "There are seven notes in this scale." me: ok music theory: "So we call it an 'octave.'" me, a mathematician: wait
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
music theory: "there are four beats in this measure" me: ok music theory: "so we're gonna write it as a fraction that equals 1." me: wait
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
music is basically base 8 math except for the way that math was made up all over again

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Replying to @catehstn
thing I don't get about base 8 is there are 7 things, and 5 things, and that makes 12 things, but none of those are 8 things.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @catehstn
it's 8 things only if you count the base element for the next scale, too. But then you have overlap and that's uncanny
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
I forgot to mention base 8 was also invented slightly differently.
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