On 11.11.2017 12:30, David Kastrup wrote:
I have a hard time seeing a "beat" as something that can have different
lengths.

Musical notation isn’t well-defined in a mathematical or programming sense, so there are no such strict rules as all beats of a measure having to be the same length. If nobody would refer to the last quarter note of 3+3+2/8 as “the third beat” then that’s because it would tend to be confusing.

Best, Simon

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