User talk:BudjarnLambeth/Brainstorming mostly bad ideas to solve the comma naming debate

Some Thoughts

Well I guess I'm in group A, but I sure don't want to rattle off two 6-digit numbers when I want to discuss a comma. I'm a human being, not a computer. Case in point, Lalawa, aka the pythagorean comma. I've never memorized that ratio and I don't intend to. I've memorized some 3-digit ratios, but not many.

As for group B, I do like musically meaningful names. The augmented comma refers to the obvious 5-limit augmented triad, Likewise the diminished comma = dim7 tetrad. And perhaps we could call 81/80 the meantone comma. There's probably a dozen or so more such names. Not nearly enough. As for mathematically meaningful names, I had no idea what 2001 squared was until I clicked on the Odyssey link. Again, I'm not a computer. I don't go around squaring 4-digit numbers for fun. So I wouldn't call Odyssey a direct, non-convoluted name.

I don't think group B's dream solution is possible. There just aren't 950 meaningful names! --TallKite (talk) 19:20, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Based on your comment, I've changed the group A section to instead say "Some wiki editors, let's call them "group A", believe common names (e.g. "exampleisma") should not be used at all, and instead, only systematically-generated names like color names, and/or the interval's monzo, and/or the interval's ratio (if its numerator is less than some number of digits) should be used."

I also changed the group A 'dream solution' to use <4 digits instead of <7.

--BudjarnLambeth (talk) 02:51, 21 May 2025 (UTC)