okay... out of curiousity... how would you then seperate the interger value from the fractional part do something to one side and then put it back together... like if you had 8.01 and you want to add to the '8' part in one way (ordinary decimal) and add to the .01 part modulo something .. like say modulo 12 so that adding .11 to 8.01 would give you 9.0 ...
so that you had something like: . . . 7.11, 8.00, 8.01, 8.02, 8.03, 8.04, 8.05. 8.06, 8.07, 8.08, 8.09, 8.10, 8.11, 9.00 ... why you might ask? This is one way that computer's can understand musical pitch... the '.xx' part represents the pitch classes (chromatically c-b) and the integer portion represents the octave... go from b 7.11 to c (7.12 = 8.0) and likewise down from c (6.00 for example) to b 5.11 ... sometimes you want to 'pop' off the pitch-class portion of the number and do things but also keep track of your octave crossings.... sometimes you think "why would anyone want to do that" so here is why i could use such a thing.. you have sort of compound notation that has to account for the base 12 part of the problem and our octaves in regular base 10... hehe... sorry iffin i am highjacking the thread .. -k -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
