SV: [sdiy] Russian synth - polivoks

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Richard Wentk <richard at skydancer.com>
Subject: Re: SV: [sdiy] Russian synth - polivoks
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:16:43 +0000

> At 09:10 28/03/2003 -0800, Tim Ressel wrote:
> >Yo,
> >
> >I was going to design a synth for European use one
> >time, but I could not find out what 440 Hz was in
> >metric  ;-)
> 
> 43.8 radians/microyear

That ain't propper SI style! Also, much more limited precission! :-P

Hz is propper and accepted form for 1/s (which should be written s^-1).

So 440 1/s, 440 s^-1 and 440 Hz are the same and "propper".

Much fun is found when you try to SI-adapt C-code - C is not propperly SI
compatible - it is actually severly broken. C++, Java etc. is also broken in the
same way.

> If you need any further help converting from that mad imperial system you 
> yanks use into something much more rational, just ask.

Indeed. Some people still think electronic units are in MIL. Get real, not even
IPC beleives that anymore.

Cheers,
Magnus