On 11/17/16 7:21 PM, "mclaren" <metachroma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >The deceptive Lilypond code shown above that prints those fake tuplets is >truly contemptible because it doesn't address the real issue. The real >issue is that Lilypond doesn't allow nested tuplets beyond very small >values >of tuplets (like 4:3, 7:5, etc.) for reasons having to do with internal >integer limits on calculations in Lilypond. Now, that truly is >ridiculous. >We're dealing with modern computers with 4 or 8 or 16 gigs of RAM or more, >multi-core CPUs with full floating point units in hardware, and hard >drives >with terabytes of storage. And you're telling me all this computing power >is >incapable of calculating an approximation to .99^10 or .99^20 or .99^50? >You're telling me that that approximation of .99^50 can't be turned into >an >integer with some negligible error in the approximation? Please.
I'm telling you I don't know how to do it. You claim it should be easy for you. As I said before, patches would certainly be appreciated. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
