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At the same time, if we can consider the product of generation as a ''free Abelian group'', we can see some generalization of the vector space concept, but not the vector space ''per se''. Free Abelian group is the Abelian groups with a ''free module'' (module with a basis); and the concept of a module can be considered as a generalization of the notion of vector space. This is trivial enough only for ''linear temperaments'', in particular, EDOs, where we can consider the two-generator basis: 1 microtone (note that this is an irrational number) and 1 octave. An attempt to use the basis of rational-number generators leads to infinite sets of never repeating frequency positions within the octave, because 2 and any other rational non-unison interval are incommensurable values. — [[User:SAKryukov|SA]], ''Wednesday 2020 December 2, 23:08 UTC'' | At the same time, if we can consider the product of generation as a ''free Abelian group'', we can see some generalization of the vector space concept, but not the vector space ''per se''. Free Abelian group is the Abelian groups with a ''free module'' (module with a basis); and the concept of a module can be considered as a generalization of the notion of vector space. This is trivial enough only for ''linear temperaments'', in particular, EDOs, where we can consider the two-generator basis: 1 microtone (note that this is an irrational number) and 1 octave. An attempt to use the basis of rational-number generators leads to infinite sets of never repeating frequency positions within the octave, because 2 and any other rational non-unison interval are incommensurable values. — [[User:SAKryukov|SA]], ''Wednesday 2020 December 2, 23:08 UTC'' | ||
: You must view it in the logarithmic measure, in which there is definitely musical sense for both addition and multiplication. [[User:FloraC|FloraC]] ([[User talk:FloraC|talk]]) 06:55, 3 December 2020 (UTC) | |||
: Added a footnote explaining the technicality. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 23:48, 6 December 2020 (UTC) | |||
== Clarify wedgies == | |||
In this article, wedgies and mapping matrices are presented as alternative paths to exploring RTT. However, in recent discussions on Facebook, Discord, and the Sagittal forum I have come to understand (from folks like Herman, Dave, Mike, Graham) that wedgies have only specialized uses and are mostly for fans of certain advanced types of math. In other words, if I'm a person who has been desperately struggling for 15 years to understand what people are talking about re: temperaments, wedgies are a bit of a dead end (or at least a quagmire of distraction) and I should cease agonizing over them. I think that since the lecture series doesn't continue far enough to give specific examples of using them to navigate and describe tuning space that might have value to non-mathematicians, it could help to make that clear briefly here. --[[User:Cmloegcmluin|Cmloegcmluin]] ([[User talk:Cmloegcmluin|talk]]) 17:17, 16 April 2021 (UTC) | |||