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:::I'm not too concerned about scale degree names personally, though we could write up something for that in the future. There's nothing inherently connecting the letter A to the number 0, and in [[Diamond-mos notation]] notes don't start from A anyway. It's true that ordinal naming is ingrained, but it's arithmetically really confusing, and it's important for interval arithmetic to be easy when working in an unfamiliar system. Since all the intervals are different anyway, I think it's totally worth it to make the switch.

:::There's a lot of precedent for using "octave" to refer to 2/1 in a non-diatonic context. For me, "octave" is just the word for 2/1 and doesn't usually have a specifically diatonic meaning. If the word were "8th" instead, it would be more confusing, but the "ave" suffix distinguishes it from other diatonic interval classes. --[[User:SupahstarSaga|SupahstarSaga]] ([[User talk:SupahstarSaga|talk]])

:::Additionally, the "ave" or "tave" suffix has been redefined in the community to refer to a JI equave, most commonly with "tritave". Because of that, using "decave" to refer to 2/1 in a non-tone mos would be confusing.

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 :::I'm not too concerned about scale degree names personally, though we could write up something for that in the future. There's nothing inherently connecting the letter A to the number 0, and in [[Diamond-mos notation]] notes don't start from A anyway. It's true that ordinal naming is ingrained, but it's arithmetically really confusing, and it's important for interval arithmetic to be easy when working in an unfamiliar system. Since all the intervals are different anyway, I think it's totally worth it to make the switch.
 :::There's a lot of precedent for using "octave" to refer to 2/1 in a non-diatonic context. For me, "octave" is just the word for 2/1 and doesn't usually have a specifically diatonic meaning. If the word were "8th" instead, it would be more confusing, but the "ave" suffix distinguishes it from other diatonic interval classes. --[[User:SupahstarSaga|SupahstarSaga]] ([[User talk:SupahstarSaga|talk]])
+:::Additionally, the "ave" or "tave" suffix has been redefined in the community to refer to a JI equave, most commonly with "tritave". Because of that, using "decave" to refer to 2/1 in a non-tone mos would be confusing.