On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 07:14:30PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message > news:mailman.278.1331251506.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... [...] > I've heared that in countries like China which have a tonal language, > the percentage of people with "perfect pitch" is incredibly high - > something like 90-99%. Whereas in other places, like the US, it's > *way* below half the population (something like 10%, IIRC). [...]
I'm not sure if there's a direct correlation though... because Chinese tones are not pitch-perfect; they are relative to a reference pitch which differs from person to person. T -- The most powerful one-line C program: #include "/dev/tty" -- IOCCC