[seqfan] Re: Musical information about a sequence

[Neil Sloane]

Does this refer to A258024?  Or is there a related sequence that should
also be added to the OEIS? (A258024 could use a b-file so we can hear it
better)

Best regards
Neil

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On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Veikko Pohjola <veikko at nordem.fi> wrote:

> Dear seqfans,
>
> Applying floor(tan(n)) repeatedly, a limiting sequence results composed of
> 0’s and 1’s only. The proportion of 1’s is somewhat over 12% and they
> distribute interestingly forming a repeating pattern. Converting the
> sequence of distances between the positions of 1’s into music (say piano)
> turns it to fascinating music manifesting a steady beat with a theme and
> delicate variations. Counting the number of beats in a sequence of known
> length permits to assess the number of individual sounds (terms) within
> each measure to about 42.
>
> I am wondering whether such a steady beat could be inherited from the
> periodic nature of the mother function (tan) and if so, should the length
> of the pattern thus be predicted. And in general, are this sort of musical
> findings regarded to belong to recreational domain and not at all to hard
> mathematics, not even when some useful mathematical information could be
> obtained by listening.
>
> Best regards,
> Veikko Pohjola
>
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