From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: "Joël Krähemann" <joel@weedlight.ch>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: is 440 Hz the true harmonic wave
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:45:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53391D0E.2000306@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396244213.3927.4.camel@debian>
Joël Krähemann wrote:
> Is 440 Hz the true harmonic wave?
440 Hz is a frequency, not a wave.
A single sine wave does not have overtones, so it is not possible to
apply the term "harmony".
I do not understand what you mean with "true".
> Is there a constant for it in glibc, like M_PI?
What would be the use of a definition like "#define HZ_440 440"?
Regards,
Clemens
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2014-03-31 5:36 is 440 Hz the true harmonic wave Joël Krähemann
2014-03-31 7:45 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
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2014-03-31 9:30 ` Joël Krähemann
2014-03-31 9:49 ` Joël Krähemann
2014-03-31 9:57 ` Joël Krähemann
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