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Originally Posted by Craig Sawyers

Worse than a decimal inch ruler, how about decimal music (ie dividing an octave into ten tones)

http://www.derek-hasted.co.uk/assets...d/ten-tone.mp3

The Czech composer Alois Haba used quarter-tones and sixth-tones ; and the American composer Harry Partch divided the octave into 43 unequal tones. Microtonal music became fairly common last century.