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== History and terminology == | == History and terminology == | ||
Monzos are named in honor of [[ | Monzos are named in honor of [[Joseph Monzo]], given by [[Gene Ward Smith]] in July 2003. These were also previously called ''factorads'' by [[John Chalmers]] in ''Xenharmonikôn 1'', although the basic idea goes back at least as far as [[Adriaan Fokker]] and probably further back, so that the entire naming situation can be viewed as an example of [[Wikipedia: Stigler%27s law of eponymy|Stigler's law]] many times over. More descriptive but longer terms include '''prime-count vector'''<ref>Used by [[Douglas Blumeyer]] and [[Dave Keenan]] on this wiki, notably in [[Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT]]</ref>, '''prime-exponent vector'''<ref>[http://tonalsoft.com/enc/m/monzo.aspx Tonalsoft | ''Monzo'']</ref>, and in the context of just intonation, '''harmonic space coordinates'''<ref>[https://www.plainsound.org/HEJI/ Plainsound Music Edition | ''Plainsound Harmonic Space Calculator'']</ref>. | ||
== Examples == | == Examples == |