You have a nice grid pattern and you can use a city block metric to add up the number of blocks between people's doors.

整个城市呈格网状,你可以数数,人们相隔多少个街区。

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So musical notation: the first grid pattern in Western culture-- but it does lock us in in interesting ways that we may-- you perhaps have never considered-- compared to how music is made in other cultures.

因此音乐记谱法,是西方文化中最早的网格图示,但这也限制了我们以某种有趣的方式,你们也许从来没有想过的方式创作,相对其他文化中音乐创作的过程而言

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