Rationals

Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Yan Pang

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Abstract

In Latin, ratio means rapport, division of two things. Here we introduce rational numbers as fractions of two integer numbers a and b. This procedure allows us to solve equations of type a・x = b with a≠ 0. Our strategy again follows the philosophy that the problem is the solution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputational Music Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages93-98
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Publication series

NameComputational Music Science
ISSN (Print)1868-0305
ISSN (Electronic)1868-0313

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

Keywords

  • Inverse Element
  • Neutral Element
  • Rational Number
  • Symbolic Time
  • Time Signature

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