i wonder how many people on this websites know the significance of the thirty-ninth root of 92
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@monorail i am surprised you know, but i guess you just looked it up
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@Felthry i figured rosemary would know it, and i don't actually know if i've seen anyone else in your system actually use this websites, so i said at least two :p
@monorail ooooh. Fair point! Alaric is here too though.
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@Felthry I looked it up, still baffled as to *why*
shouldn't you want highly composite numbers for this kind of thing? and if you don't for some reason, wouldn't you go with primes?
@octopus I don't see why either of those matter, honestly? The point is just to get a fixed ratio and they wanted 40 divisions between two existing sizes
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@Felthry so 39th root is x^(1/40)… that makes more sense, 4/5/8/10 is a good set of factors
I thought they wanted to have 3 sets of 13 divisions corresponding to x(4x23) scaling, which just seems weirdly un-human friendly
@octopus no it's x^1/39, you need to use one less than the number of divisions you want
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@octopus because you have x(*r⁰), then x*r¹, then x*r², and so on, so to get a total of 40 you need go span from r⁰ to r³⁹
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@Felthry I had to look it up to realize its significance, but I'm also not in America, so.
@terrana It's not exactly somethign we know by heart either.
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@Felthry We looked it up and learned something today, thank you :>
@packbat it's the ratio between diameters of consecutive AWG sizes
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@Felthry i didn't, but now i'm finding out. thanks :3