Some problems have no solution, absolutely no solution at all. The following is my dilettante's look at one such problem.
In music, in a tempered chromatic scale of Do-Do#-Re-Re#-Mi-Fa-Fa#-Sol-Sol#-La-La#-Ti-Do, there are twelve intervals between all of the notes including the sharps and flats and this can be called a twelve-tone scale. (For the sake of this discussion, we can let Do-sharp equal Re-flat etc.)
We start at some particular frequency as the "root" note which we call "Do" and then each note going up the scale has a frequency of the note just below itself multiplied by the twelfth root of two which is an irrational number, but is approximately 1.059463.
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