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"This has got to be some of the worst jargon and notation for anything, ever."

Ummm, do you math? ;)

My point of view of music theory is: sound is objective. music is subjective. where the two meet is music theory.



Yeah, no, modern math notation is a lot cleaner than musical notation, and completely free of historic conventions.

Pretty much the only thing "forced" into it by human preference is the standard of using base-10 numbers.

Prove me wrong please :)


> and completely free of historic conventions

> Prove me wrong please :)

Some of the notation goes back centuries [0]. Our current representation of calculus reflects a convention that was hammered out following significant disputes in the early 18th Century.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematical_notati...




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