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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">A //fractional monzo// is like an ordinary [[Monzos and Interval Space|monzo]] except that coefficients have been extended to allow them to be rational numbers. If |e2 e3 ... ep&gt; is a fractional monzo, then it represents 2^e2 3^e3 ... p^ep just as with an ordinary monzo. Hence, for instance, |14/13 -1/13 7/26&gt; represents the interval 2^(14/13) 3^(-1/13) 5^(7/26). By taking the least common multiple of the denominators, intervals represented by a fractional monzo can always be written as an nth root of a positive rational number; for instance from our example, (20971520000000/9)^(1/26). By taking a dot product with &lt;cents(2) cents(3) ... cents(p)| the value in cents of a monzo or fractional monzo may be obtained. For instance, in the above example (14/13)*1200.0 - (1/13)*cents(3) + (7/26)*cents(5) = 1896.1648 cents.
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">A //fractional monzo// is like an ordinary [[Monzos and Interval Space|monzo]] except that coefficients have been extended to allow them to be rational numbers. If |e2 e3 ... ep&gt; is a fractional monzo, then it represents 2^e2 3^e3 ... p^ep just as with an ordinary monzo. Hence, for instance, |14/13 -1/13 7/26&gt; represents the interval 2^(14/13) 3^(-1/13) 5^(7/26). By taking the least common multiple of the denominators, intervals represented by a fractional monzo can always be written as an nth root of a positive rational number; for instance from our example, (20971520000000/9)^(1/26). By taking a dot product with &lt;cents(2) cents(3) ... cents(p)| the value in cents of a monzo or fractional monzo may be obtained. For instance, in the above example (14/13)*1200.0 - (1/13)*cents(3) + (7/26)*cents(5) = 1896.1648 cents.


Vectors in interval space, where the coefficients are allowed to be real numbers, do not uniquely correspond to intervals, whereas monzos do. Fractional monzos do also; for each fractional monzo there is one and only one nth root of a rational number which corresponds to it.  
Vectors in interval space, where the coefficients are allowed to be real numbers, do not uniquely correspond to intervals, whereas monzos do. Fractional monzos do also; for each fractional monzo there is one and only one nth root of a positive rational number which corresponds to it.  


===Fractional projection maps===
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Fractional monzos&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;A &lt;em&gt;fractional monzo&lt;/em&gt; is like an ordinary &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Monzos%20and%20Interval%20Space"&gt;monzo&lt;/a&gt; except that coefficients have been extended to allow them to be rational numbers. If |e2 e3 ... ep&amp;gt; is a fractional monzo, then it represents 2^e2 3^e3 ... p^ep just as with an ordinary monzo. Hence, for instance, |14/13 -1/13 7/26&amp;gt; represents the interval 2^(14/13) 3^(-1/13) 5^(7/26). By taking the least common multiple of the denominators, intervals represented by a fractional monzo can always be written as an nth root of a positive rational number; for instance from our example, (20971520000000/9)^(1/26). By taking a dot product with &amp;lt;cents(2) cents(3) ... cents(p)| the value in cents of a monzo or fractional monzo may be obtained. For instance, in the above example (14/13)*1200.0 - (1/13)*cents(3) + (7/26)*cents(5) = 1896.1648 cents.&lt;br /&gt;
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Fractional monzos&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;A &lt;em&gt;fractional monzo&lt;/em&gt; is like an ordinary &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Monzos%20and%20Interval%20Space"&gt;monzo&lt;/a&gt; except that coefficients have been extended to allow them to be rational numbers. If |e2 e3 ... ep&amp;gt; is a fractional monzo, then it represents 2^e2 3^e3 ... p^ep just as with an ordinary monzo. Hence, for instance, |14/13 -1/13 7/26&amp;gt; represents the interval 2^(14/13) 3^(-1/13) 5^(7/26). By taking the least common multiple of the denominators, intervals represented by a fractional monzo can always be written as an nth root of a positive rational number; for instance from our example, (20971520000000/9)^(1/26). By taking a dot product with &amp;lt;cents(2) cents(3) ... cents(p)| the value in cents of a monzo or fractional monzo may be obtained. For instance, in the above example (14/13)*1200.0 - (1/13)*cents(3) + (7/26)*cents(5) = 1896.1648 cents.&lt;br /&gt;
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Vectors in interval space, where the coefficients are allowed to be real numbers, do not uniquely correspond to intervals, whereas monzos do. Fractional monzos do also; for each fractional monzo there is one and only one nth root of a rational number which corresponds to it. &lt;br /&gt;
Vectors in interval space, where the coefficients are allowed to be real numbers, do not uniquely correspond to intervals, whereas monzos do. Fractional monzos do also; for each fractional monzo there is one and only one nth root of a positive rational number which corresponds to it. &lt;br /&gt;
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