https://xkcd.com/2788

“In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper.”

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Hahahahahaha. I get this joke. It is very funny. You should probably explain it for the other people who are not so smart as me who is smart.

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On a normal scale, the ticks go 1…2…3…4…

on a log scale, ticks go 1…10…100…1000…

Sound and frequency, weirdly, is always in a log scale, you just dont notice it

Time however, usually shouldnt be 😂

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Thanks. I guess I never realized notes were on a log scale.

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If it helps, going up an octave doubles the frequency. So we perceive the difference between 100hz and 200hz to be the same as the difference between 300hz and 600hz.

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You have to know music and math to appreciate this, true.

If you need an explanation I’d say read the intro for log scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale

And then listen to https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI

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I think there’s a website called “xkcd explained”, or something.

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And thus the spectrogram was born

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