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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

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-31  5:36 is 440 Hz the true harmonic wave Joël Krähemann
2014-03-31  7:45 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2014-03-31  8:20   ` Joël Krähemann
     [not found]     ` <CAFz=ag7Xgvjq6JL7i=KMjCoh==3EDw2Y-NSoeBm3hnjKt2ZDrw@mail.gmail.com>
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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