Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

Hello McLaren,

As a newbie to this kind of calculations in notes length, how I am supposed to 
play them?
In particular, if others play them too?

JM

> Le 8 nov. 2016 à 09:02, David Kastrup <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> mclaren <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> An alternative method involves simply adding in the required rests, rather
>> than squishing or stretching the entire measure with a large tuplet. Since
>> this method is easy to calculate exactly because you're just adding and
>> subtracting various integer fractions, it always produces guaranteed
>> results. With very large tuplets, there seem to sometimes be floating point
>> inaccuracies in the calculations done inside Lilypond,
> 
> LilyPond does not work with floating point or other inaccurate types for
> musical length calculations.  Its own rationals (where it uses them
> rather than Guile's rather large rationals) however are limited in the
> maximum value of numerator and denominator.  I don't think that it
> checks all cases for overflow, so when you exceed their sizes, results
> will not be inaccurate as much as completely off the wall.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
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