[PD] how to make a proportional canon

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Derek Holzer wrote:
> Dear Libero, [...]
> where $0 will be replaced by a new random number which
> is unique to each abstraction).

Dear Derek, please see 
http://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2001182781025.gif

$0 numbers are just as predictable as the random numbers in that cartoon. 
they form the sequence: 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 
1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, ...

In pd, it's not really important how those numbers are picked as long as 
there are no duplicates. In practice, it's easiest to count up and not 
bother reusing numbers when abstractions are destroyed. This is what pd 
does. This strategy is not without shortcomings, but few people ever 
noticed it.

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