This is amazing info, unfortunately as usual Anglos are clueless about the metric system. 48kHz is obviously an old standard, Babylonian I think? Revolutionary France did try to impose a 100kHz standard in the 13th Brumaire edict but it didn't stick. Napoleon did restore the 48kHz standard tho.
(OK just for the rest of the audience Bruce is ALMOST NEVER serious about that kind of thing. He's actually pretty chill & a fantastic advocate for accessibility, among other things.)
I once had a software tester complain that our "spare computer" (the Debian samba fileshare and print server) was broken, so I put fvwm95 and Netscape 4 on it and she thanked me for fixing it.
The weirdness of the 100 hz in 44.1 kHz was because they used mechanical Difference Engines to do the sampling, but couldn't manufacture precisely enough to hit exactly 44kHz, until the late 1890s but by that time the standard was too ingrained.
Comments
if so, can you direct me to that part of the algorithm? i already follow @jcsalterego.bsky.social but that’s clearly not enough. 😉