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minus-squareGaryPonderosalinkEnglish1•1 year agoHahahahahaha. I get this joke. It is very funny. You should probably explain it for the other people who are not so smart as me who is smart.
minus-squaretheoremlinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoOn a normal scale, the ticks go 1…2…3…4… on a log scale, ticks go 1…10…100…1000… Sound and frequency, weirdly, is always in a log scale, you just dont notice it Time however, usually shouldnt be 😂
minus-squareGaryPonderosalinkEnglish1•1 year agoThanks. I guess I never realized notes were on a log scale.
minus-squareJulianlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoIf it helps, going up an octave doubles the frequency. So we perceive the difference between 100hz and 200hz to be the same as the difference between 300hz and 600hz.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agoYou have to know music and math to appreciate this, true. If you need an explanation I’d say read the intro for log scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale And then listen to https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI
minus-square@atimholtlinkEnglish0•1 year agoI think there’s a website called “xkcd explained”, or something.
Hahahahahaha. I get this joke. It is very funny. You should probably explain it for the other people who are not so smart as me who is smart.
On a normal scale, the ticks go 1…2…3…4…
on a log scale, ticks go 1…10…100…1000…
Sound and frequency, weirdly, is always in a log scale, you just dont notice it
Time however, usually shouldnt be 😂
Thanks. I guess I never realized notes were on a log scale.
If it helps, going up an octave doubles the frequency. So we perceive the difference between 100hz and 200hz to be the same as the difference between 300hz and 600hz.
You have to know music and math to appreciate this, true.
If you need an explanation I’d say read the intro for log scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale
And then listen to https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI
I think there’s a website called “xkcd explained”, or something.
explainxkcd.com