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It's also pretty fair to say that all computers do IS maths. They perform binary operations at a rate of thousands per second. The fact that we've got these binary digits to produce a human-readable display, we use it to produce audio, and represent text, and we make our input in a non-mathematical form. <br><br>That doesn't stop computers just being capable of maths.<br><br>It's why programs are called applications, they're simply another way to apply maths. <br><br>I, for one, am quite glad, because I'm good at logic, but barely average at arithmetic :p<br><br>Andrew<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 09:07:09 +0100<br>> From: lorenzofsutton@gmail.com<br>> To: matju@artengine.ca<br>> CC: pd-list@iem.at<br>> Subject: Re: [PD] [OT] Music Notation in linux<br>> <br>> On 05/03/12 01:43, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:<br>> > Le 2012-03-03 à 22:54:00, Lorenzo Sutton a écrit :<br>> ><br>> >> You can create a midi output, with all the drawbacks and benefits. As <br>> >> far as I know there is no lilypond "player", but to be totally honest <br>> >> I'm not sure it would make so much sense as lilypond is primarily a <br>> >> music typesetting language.<br>> ><br>> > Do you also mean it doesn't make much sense to use PureData for <br>> > anything else than audio ?<br>> No, nor I see the logic by which you assume I mean that from the above <br>> statement.<br>> ><br>> > And computers were only meant for doing math, too.<br>> <br>> Indeed they are.<br>> And I don't think "math" is anything dirty, with less dignity than other <br>> disciplines, or to be ashamed of.<br>> Computers are very powerful, yet stupid, calculators. In fact in Italian <br>> we still use the word "calcolatore" to address a computer. And of course <br>> 'computer' itself stems from the French "computer", and in turn from the <br>> Latin "computare". [1]<br>> Saying computers are anything different is at best a (very intriguing) <br>> fascination; at worst plain mystification.<br>> <br>> Lorenzo.<br>> <br>> [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/computer#Etymology<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Pd-list@iem.at mailing list<br>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list<br></div> </div></body>
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