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"see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve the Beatles’ riddle."

I feel less dumb today knowing clearly exactly how that would work. Although I would have thought it would in practice be feeding it into an audio analysis app and picking the peaks and mapping them to notes on various tunings. Not really mathematics though, but cool none the less.




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