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| Mar 25, 2019 at 23:57 | vote | accept | Richard | ||
| Aug 27, 2018 at 7:55 | comment | added | Scott Wallace | Yep. Calling C to D a "second" rather than a "first", counting both endpoints as you say, is called "the fencepost problem", which comes up all the time in various guises. If you have twelve lines spaced an inch apart, how far from the first to the last line? Eleven inches. We have the opposite problem in numbering harmonics- typically, the octave is called the "first harmonic", when it should really be the second- the fundamental is the first, because it's one times the starting frequency, the octave is two times, and so forth. Conventions are not always logical. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 0:29 | history | answered | ttw | CC BY-SA 4.0 |