Difference between revisions of "Talk:594: Period"
(Define cents in audio) |
|||
Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
::Apparently cents is a musical term that has a correlation to frequency. The A is a musical note. [https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/clarinet/trivia/trivia009.html] [[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.129|162.158.187.129]] 02:35, 30 November 2020 (UTC) | ::Apparently cents is a musical term that has a correlation to frequency. The A is a musical note. [https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/clarinet/trivia/trivia009.html] [[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.129|162.158.187.129]] 02:35, 30 November 2020 (UTC) | ||
:::Okay, that makes absolutely no cents whatsoever. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.78|172.69.34.78]] 18:30, 13 April 2021 (UTC) | :::Okay, that makes absolutely no cents whatsoever. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.78|172.69.34.78]] 18:30, 13 April 2021 (UTC) | ||
+ | ::A cent is a frequency ratio of 2<sup>1/1200</sup> to 1. Just as there are 20 decibels in a 10-fold increase in sound amplitude, there are 100 cents in a semitone and 12 semitones in an octave. --[[User:Tepples|Tepples]] ([[User talk:Tepples|talk]]) 03:29, 2 September 2021 (UTC) |
Revision as of 03:29, 2 September 2021
...And angular velocity: 1.97 mHz 108.162.231.30 23:29, 14 December 2014 (UTC) This just makes me sad for Homestuck. ----
One must wonder whether Randall noticed the Homestuck connection at the time of making this comic. He is, apparently, a fan, as Homestuck is linked on the main xkcd site, but this comic was made within only a few months of the comic's start, so he mightn't have heard of it yet.--173.245.52.151 03:36, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
This is about 16 cents away from a very, very, *very* low A, for what it's worth. 162.158.75.180 22:18, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't speak... uh... I have no idea what language you're speaking. This comment is incomprehensible to me. 172.69.33.173 18:49, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
- Apparently cents is a musical term that has a correlation to frequency. The A is a musical note. [1] 162.158.187.129 02:35, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- Okay, that makes absolutely no cents whatsoever. 172.69.34.78 18:30, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- A cent is a frequency ratio of 21/1200 to 1. Just as there are 20 decibels in a 10-fold increase in sound amplitude, there are 100 cents in a semitone and 12 semitones in an octave. --Tepples (talk) 03:29, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
- Apparently cents is a musical term that has a correlation to frequency. The A is a musical note. [1] 162.158.187.129 02:35, 30 November 2020 (UTC)