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19-limit planar temperament example

🔗genewardsmith@juno.com

11/15/2001 3:17:37 AM

I thought I'd work a more elaborate example, to see if any problems
arose--one did, but one easily dealt with.

I started from the 8539-et in the 19-limit, to put the method to a
more difficult test. Doing the lattice reduction and inverting gives
a basis <10830/10829,50578/50575,28900/28899,12376/12375,
314721/314678,5928/5929,14364/14365,4914/4913>. On the grounds they
were the three largest, I kept the 5th, 6th and 8th commas, and did a
lattice reduction on the corresponding vals, which were the 581,742
and 954 ets. This gave me the following matrix:

[-3 -3 2]
[ 1 -5 -4]
[-3 -2 2]
[-1 1 7]
[ 2 -4 1]
[-2 -6 -1]
[ 7 -6 -1]
[ 4 0 8]

I ran into difficulties with my trick of finding an invertible
submatrix, but this is not really necessary. I simply fitted to the
three generators (in a rough and ready way, using just the primes,
which could be improved on in an example intended for use) and
obtained generators of size 51.6, -859.188, 611.382; of course the
negative cents can be replaced by positive cents and everything taken
inside an octave. This resulted in a planar temperament all of whose
19-limit prime approximations were within a fraction of a cent (1/17
or less) of being just.