It's a pity you have shown aggressive contempt for programmers and computer scientists in general on this list, and yet you seem to want to use computers. Any introductory course in numerical analysis will teach you that floating point calculations on computers are inherently inaccurate, due to the design and limitations of computers. Floating point is an approximation to real numbers, not an exact map. The people you dislike so much have devoted decades of study to floating point theory and chip design. The scientific community has been aware of these issues and topics since the 1960's. For example. you cannot compare two floating point numbers for equality - you can only test to see if they are within a specified epsilon of each other. There are papers on floating point accuracy that are considered to be essential reading for any programmer. I am able to send you the links should you care to avail yourself of that help.
Therefore, claiming it is a lilypond problem that floating point calculations is incorrect, and lacks insight, and is simply an empty opinion based assertion. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: lilypond-user [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+andrew_bernard=hotmail....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of mclaren Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2016 6:29 PM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8 An alternative method involves simply adding in the required rests, rather than squishing or stretching the entire measure with a large tuplet. Since this method is easy to calculate exactly because you're just adding and subtracting various integer fractions, it always produces guaranteed results. With very large tuplets, there seem to sometimes be floating point inaccuracies in the calculations done inside Lilypond, so sometimes the large tuplet method doesn't work exactly and barlines don't precisely add up. But with this method, barlines always line up exactly and no extreme unction is required to add barlines or to fiddle with any kind of make-moment value to get the barlines right. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user