Compute pi to base 12 using Python?

[Dick Moores]

Doug Schwarz wrote at 20:14 4/13/2005:
>In article <mailman.1865.1113441561.1799.python-list at python.org>,
>  Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote:
>
> > Dan wrote at 18:02 4/13/2005:
> > >On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:27:06 -0700, Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com>
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm just trying to help an artist acquaintance who needs (I just
> > > >learned) the first 3003 digits of pi to the base 12.
> > >
> > >Now you've got me curious.  Why would an artist want the first 3003
> > >digits of pi to the base 12?
> >
> > He says,
> > Do you know how I can get "base12 pi"?
> > Because the chromatic scale is base12.
> > c c# d d# e f f# g g# a a# b
> >
> > Dick
>
>Does your artist friend have any idea what base 12 means?
>
>The chromatic scale is based on one twelfth powers of two, i.e., if the
>frequency of a note in the scale is f(n), then the frequency of the next
>note is given by
>
>   f(n+1) = f(n) * 2^(1/12)
>
>so by the time you go all 12 notes in an octave you have doubled the
>frequency.  There is nothing here involving base 12 or pi.

He's a friend of a friend. I don't know what he knows, but I'll forward 
this to MY friend. Thanks.

Dick


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