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His most prominent mathematico-musical feat was to compute a 17-tone equal division of the octave, using a Machin-like formula for log(2). | His most prominent mathematico-musical feat was to compute a 17-tone equal division of the octave, using a Machin-like formula for log(2). | ||
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Wellwise's linguistic interests were primarily in dialectology. He travelled throughout Irtan England and wrote a diary of phonetic and lexical features of various Irtan dialects of English. He later became an inspiration for many dialectologists all over Irta. |
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