> An octave represents eight notes, not a factor of eight.
>
> Makes more sense than "flammable" and "inflammable" :)
>
> Bob

Start of a flame war?

But, the relationship between adjacent notes is interesting. It's
something like 2^(n/8). I imagine it had a binary origin. An octave is
easy to identify. "Half way" between would be the next step, then half
again, then half again, and you're to 8 notes per octave.

Back to octave and decade... I suppose octade would be 8 times and decave
would be the same as octave, but 10 notes per frequency doubling (time for
metric music?).

Harold


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