What does mediant mean?
Mediant means (music) The third degree of the diatonic scale..
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/ˈmiːdi.ənt/ · noun
(music) The third degree of the diatonic scale..
For any tangent pair of Ford circles corresponding to rational numbers r and s, the Ford circle tangent to both of them corresponds to the rational number which is the mediant of r and s.
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Mediant means (music) The third degree of the diatonic scale..
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For any tangent pair of Ford circles corresponding to rational numbers r and s, the Ford circle tangent to both of them corresponds to the rational number which is the mediant of r and s.
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