{"id":7183,"date":"2011-09-25T19:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2011-09-25T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:59:09","slug":"musical-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7183","title":{"rendered":"Musical bits"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to some students about how a number that’s stored in a word of computer memory is made up of individual bits, where each bit is either on or off (ie: one or zero).<\/p>\n

To make this easier to understand, I created a little Java applet, which you can play with by clicking on the image below:<\/p>\n


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But then as I started to play around with this applet, I found myself creating an image of a musical keyboard.<\/p>\n

That suggests an intriguing way to link numbers to music. If we assign one bit of any number to each note on the piano — as suggested in the image above — then any number becomes a musical chord.<\/p>\n

Perhaps certain mathematical progressions will produce better music than others.<\/p>\n

Hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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