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Roots, Logarithms, and Normal Forms

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Corollary 2 in Chapter 12 is crucial for the construction of some important structures for real numbers, such as general roots and logarithms. These are introduced in this chapter. We also discuss musical applications to pitch theory.

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Mazzola, G., Mannone, M., Pang, Y. (2016). Roots, Logarithms, and Normal Forms. In: Cool Math for Hot Music. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_13

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