Whole note they may occasionally be put under a different line (or ledger line) in more complicated polyphonic passages, or when two instruments or vocalists are written on one staff and one is temporarily silent. The whole note and whole rest may also be used in music of free rhythm, such as Anglican chant, to denote a whole measure, irrespective of the time of that measure. The whole rest can be used this way in almost all or all forms of music. The symbol is first found in music notation from the late thirteenth century . The whole note derives from the
Time value of money not already occurred), or simply not define the value at that point. In case the discount rate is constant, formula_47 this simplifies to where formula_49 is "time remaining until cash flow". Thus for a stream of cash flows "f"("u") ending by time "T" (which can be set to formula_50 for no time horizon) the value at time "t," formula_51 is given by combining the values of these individual cash flows: This formalizes time value of money to future values of cash flows with varying discount rates, and is the basis of many formulas in financial mathematics, such as the Black–Scholes