Wrong explanation in Play?

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Am I wrong again? (I often am)!
In the Wiki (and the Help file) I think there may be an error in the explanation for a pause in the Play function.
It says that Pn will pause for n quarter-notes, when it actually pauses for  1/n th. So p1 pauses longer than say, p16.
It's quite easy to adjust the string, but it's confusing.

Well I tried adding p in the middle of a sample and all I got was illegal this and that, no matter what I tried  so don't have proper code test.

But if 1 is whole note and 4 is quarter note then 8 must be eight and so on to 64 so I agree with your observation.

illegal code:

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Play "q0mll64"
Do
    For x = 1 To 50
        a$ = a$ + "v" + LTrim$(Str$(x)) + "n" + LTrim$(Str$(x))
    Next
    a$ = a$ + "p" + _Trim$(Str$(i))
    For x = 50 To 1 Step -1
        a$ = a$ + "v" + LTrim$(Str$(x)) + "n" + LTrim$(Str$(x))
    Next
    Print a$
    Play a$
    a$ = ""
Loop Until InKey$ <> ""
Play "v10l1c,l4egl2o5c,o4l4eg"

I have no problem getting "p" to be recognized. This is a simple check I used:
Play "cdp16ef"
Sleep 1
Play "cdp1ef"
As you'll notice, line 3 has a much longer pause than line 1

Yes I agree with you, it could be better worded in Wiki, that 1-64 are fractions of one not numbers of quarter notes, good catch. mnr's fix of my botched mod of sample proves it.