i wonder how many people on this websites know the significance of the thirty-ninth root of 92
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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?

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@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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