[pianotech] Breaking bass string

[Mike Spalding]

OK, I get it.."x =" has the effect of squaring everything that comes 
before it.

On 4/9/2011 3:41 PM, paul bruesch wrote:
> It's the key sequence to enter on a calculator (it threw me off for a 
> while, too!)
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Mike Spalding 
> <mike.spalding1 at frontier.com <mailto:mike.spalding1 at frontier.com>> wrote:
>
>     But there's still an extra equals sign, no?
>
>     On 4/9/2011 12:34 PM, John Delacour wrote:
>
>         I wrote:
>
>         > The tension in pounds is calculated by punching in the
>         following:
>         >
>         >   l x f x d x = Ö 20000 =
>         >
>         > where l is the length in CENTIMETRES and f is the frequency
>         in cycles per
>         > second and d is the overall diameter in CENTIMETRES.  I
>         repeat centimetres,
>         > NOT millimetres.
>
>         I forgot to specify the right character set in my last
>         message, so the division sign got mangled.
>
>         Here is the correct sequence:
>
>         *l x f x d x = ÷ 20000 =*
>
>         JD
>
>
>