*So* many people think an octave is 8 scale notes and 12 chromatic notes, even though those two counts are counting differently. An octave is 7 scale notes. Nobody talks about an octave being 13 chromatic notes, because it makes no sense, but "oct"ave is fine?
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At least music has age as an excuse. CS papers on algorithms on strings have no excuse.
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I never understood music until I stopped trying to understand it.
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That works with astronomy too.
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I'm not sure ... but I've always thought this was tied to how in Latin one counts both ends of a series. A Roman would count C4 as the 8th white key from C3 having counted both C's.
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People told me that I should read this as "play starting from the 8th/15th degree instead of the 1st one". But yeah, this "notation" is awful.
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Lets not forget that a fifth is also not the fifth harmonic
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Obvious solution: use an octatonic scale, now 8va is correct and you can also use 16va.
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