Luca Fascione <l.fasci...@gmail.com> writes: > Oh yes absolutely, the growth is normally much slower than worse case > unless the addends come from really weird-ass distributions, no doubt. > Round to even helps a lot with that > > And indeed our numbers not coming from measurements will in practice only > have low significant bits in a handful of specific patterns (and all > divides by power of two have a lot lot of low significant zeroes, which > further helps)
There is no "low significance" for answering the question whether two music events are simultaneous or not and could share a stem. > (Do you guys have a sense in practice how rare "odd" divisor groupings > are? It seems like anything that's not a triplet or maybe a > quintuplet would be real rare, no?) Frequent enough that we would want to support it. Sextuplets are pretty frequent (and differ in musical accent from identically timed triplets). -- David Kastrup