Re: [Audacity-nyquist] power function causes hang

[Roger D. <rb...@cs...>]

sqrt is an XLISP primitive that does not operate on sounds. Try s-sqrt.

power is not built-in, but it also expects FLONUMs, not sounds. See s-exp

For distortion see shape

paul beach wrote:
> Nyquist prompt does not return Audio
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> (sqrt (hzosc 222))
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> and this hangs the computer,
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> (power (hzosc 222))
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> Is there any way to do a power series?
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> For example, Amplitude Modulation distortion through an amplifier ... 
> ( sin x + sin y ) + ( sin x + sin y) ^ 2 ... and so on. 
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