Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8

[David Kastrup]

"Andrew Bernard" <address@hidden> writes:

> It's a pity you have shown aggressive contempt for programmers and
> computer scientists in general on this list, and yet you seem to want
> to use computers. Any introductory course in numerical analysis will
> teach you that floating point calculations on computers are inherently
> inaccurate, due to the design and limitations of computers.

Since LilyPond does not use floating point numbers for durations, all
this is a bit beside the point.

> Therefore, claiming it is a lilypond problem that floating point
> calculations is incorrect, and lacks insight, and is simply an empty
> opinion based assertion.

It is a LilyPond problem that the rational arithmetic it employs has
restrictions on the size of the fraction constituents.  If you want to
hash out some series, you run out of valid values pretty fast.  The
resulting fractions may not make a whole lot of sense but it would be a
boon if you did not have to think about approximations for such rather
special applications.  Even if it made LilyPond slow down to a crawl.

-- 
David Kastrup