Thanks for the reference.
This wikipedia article in English does not have it's counterpart in my language (French),
but a corresponding but different French article which does not mention this notion.
So this term “irrational” is indeed used that way in music (at least in English) — but I
still think it would be better to use the terme «non dyadic», also mentioned in the
article, so as to harmonize teminology between music and maths....
Silvain
Le 17.01.23 à 15:52, Hans Åberg a écrit :
On 17 Jan 2023, at 15:20, Silvain Dupertuis<silvain-dupert...@bluewin.ch>
wrote:
I wonder about the term “irrational” meter. Should not we say “irregular” ??
as in mathematics, an irrational number is a number which cannot be represented
as a fraction...
The denominator is not a power of two. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature#Irrational_meters
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