Cycling 74 » Topic: Counting until two numbers match http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/feed Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:01:09 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-60588 <![CDATA[Counting until two numbers match]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-60588 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:29:43 +0000 Another_Guy Hi all!

I’m working on a Rhythm generator which works using two inputed numbers.

Two numbers are multiplied by themselves to create two lists of essentially, times tables. e.g:

3, 6, 9, 12, 15 etc
5, 10, 15, 20 etc

With any combination of numbers eventually two numbers will match. In the example above the number is 15. But the two lists vary in lengths

I want to enter two numbers and count up until the matching number is found.

Any help would be grand!!

Guy

(Using MAX/MSP 5 on Windows 7)

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218042 <![CDATA[Re: Counting until two numbers match]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218042 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:29:00 +0000 Chris Muir I’m unclear about what you’re trying to do here. Are you trying to find something like the lowest common denominator between the two numbers?

You use the word count, but where does counting come in?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218043 <![CDATA[Re: Counting until two numbers match]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218043 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:15:05 +0000 Another_Guy Hi Chris,

Yes, I am trying to find the lowest common denominator!
(apologies for my poor knowledge of maths!!)

In the patch, the user “counts” by pressing the green button, this adds the numbers to the coll list.

If I could work out the lowest common denominator of the two numbers then I could use a counting object to bang the green button until the lowest common denominator appears in either list.

Does that make sense? I’m not very good at penning my thoughts!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218044 <![CDATA[Re: Counting until two numbers match]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218044 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:14:01 +0000 seejayjames just use [==] ? that would do it. You can match the numbers to each other, or check whether either one equals the LCM, assuming you have a way to easily determine that…checking whether the numbers “reduce” with each other (technically, do they share any prime factors and if so, don’t count them twice) will take a bit of fiddling with [%] and [/]. If you don’t have that many psosible combinations, you can just hard-code the LCM’s manually by figuring them out beforehand.

If you want more than two numbers, try [match]

Sounds like some interesting polyrhyms are on the way…math and music? yes indeed…!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218045 <![CDATA[Re: Counting until two numbers match]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218045 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:23:33 +0000 Siska Ádám Hi,

I made an external that will give you the LCM of two arbitrary integers called [sadam.lcm], which might help you with this. It is included in my library (see http://www.sadam.hu/software ).

Hope this helps,
Ádám

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218046 <![CDATA[Re: Counting until two numbers match]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/counting-until-two-numbers-match/#post-218046 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:12:45 +0000 Another_Guy Thanks for everyones input!

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