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		sullyj3 on April 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Conversations with a six-year-old on functional pr... musical notes repeat once every doubling of frequencies, so there are many C#s spread throughout the range of human hearing. The only way someone could be unable to hear c# would be if they were unable to hear at all.

Naracion on April 23, 2020 [–]

Your parent and grandparent comments were (imo, clever) word plays on C# / see sharp and back to _hear_ c# (instead of see sharp).

Edit: Point being--scientific accuracy not required. :)

sullyj3 on April 25, 2020 | [–]

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