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Sent the previous message a little too fast; just thought of another way
to explain the objection.
Theodore, you say, I think, this: In one second, the ear will receive
415 complete cycles of a 415 tone (assuming a pure sine wave). It will
receive 415.3 cycles of a 415.3 tone, and it will discard the fraction
or, rather, not detect the fraction.
But - the ear isn't counting the cycles. The ear is *timing* the cycles.
The 415.3 cycles will arrive slightly faster and therefore, in
principle, can be heard as a higher pitch.
In practice, everyone seems to agree, the ear can't discriminate between
pitches that close, but that's a matter which has been determined by
experiment, not by logic.
best,
Stuart
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