[CM] duodecimal arithmetic for music

[Heinrich Taube]

honestly i dont think this is a much-needed thing but if you did want  
to do someting like that then i think it would only make sense as a  
radix in s7.  i know s7 has radix support at least to 16 but im not  
sure what sort of  "#x" twiddle  you would use.

On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:35 PM, John Kafritsas wrote:

> While looking into the excellent Common Music 3, it occurred to me  
> that it might be very convenient to represent keys as duodecimal  
> numbers, so that, for example, 40 would be the 4th octave C, 50 the  
> 5th octave C etc. The whole 4th octave would be something like 40,  
> 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 4a, 4b, with a and b the extra  
> digits representing decimal 10 and 11. I wonder if it is possible to  
> implement that in cm3, maybe using a notation like the #b for binary  
> or the #x for hexadecimal. Might it be possible to define a similar  
> prefix for duodecimals, so that, say, #t40 would be interpreted as  
> decimal 60, #t50 as decimal 72 etc? For one thing I wonder if you  
> think this is a good idea, for another I'd appreciate any hint at  
> how to do it.