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Re: [tuning] Monzo's lines

🔗monz <joemonz@yahoo.com>

2/22/2002 9:08:25 AM

> From: genewardsmith <genewardsmith@juno.com>
> To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:12 AM
> Subject: [tuning] Monzo's lines
>
>
> Here are more comma for the lines on Joe's graph at:
>
> http://www.ixpres.com/interval/dict/eqtemp.htm
>
> ..
> The 59-71-12 line goes with 2^29 3^-8 5^-7 = 536870192/512578125.
> ...
> Finally the Orwell line of 22-75-53-84-31 is associated to the
> semicomma, which is 2^29 3^-8 5^-7 = 2109375/2097152.

there's a typo here. i'm assuming that the ratio for the
semicomma is correct, in which case the prime-factoring is
[2 3 5]**[-21 3 7]. Gene, where did you get the name "semicomma"?

-monz

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🔗manuel.op.de.coul@eon-benelux.com

2/22/2002 9:20:08 AM

> Gene, where did you get the name "semicomma"?

From Fokker, via the Scala interval list.

Manuel