Sunday, April 15, 2018

Time to repeat: longer than the universe has existed

After a day spent studying number theory, my Polymeter sequencer has something I always wanted: a "Time to Repeat" command! The command computes how long it would take for the selected tracks to repeat, in both beats and time (along with the greatest prime factor) and displays the results. I tried it on my test track that uses all prime meters less than 32 (except 23). "Only" 22,428 days. That's longer than I've been alive! That's some serious polymeter. During stress testing I made some combinations that would take trillions of years. Thomas Wilfred would be impressed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilfred
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