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Comenius University: Tuning With Fractions
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Zbyněk Kubáček, CSc.

We usually expect mathematics to offer the most accurate solution to a given problem. But sometimes, it turns out that a perfectly precise answer simply doesn’t work (not due to a flaw in mathematics, but in the problem itself). This is the case with musical scales and tuning, where we find that a suitably imprecise solution is needed. The mathematical tools involved are nothing too complex – we’ll manage with just fractions and roots.