Re: [math-fun] "What applications does that have?"

"My name is William Rowan Hamilton I just invented the quaternion It hasn't got an applicay-shee-yun But just you wait, just you wait ..."

'enry 'iggins? I like Gosper's occasional cutting remark about some theorem being "at the top of the food chain". In my opinion, there is one example in mathematical music theory for determing n such that "chordality equals ordinality". Hum a few bars. Hilarie