Meantones closing circles

Thank you for the strict correction.
I am suitably scolded for my sloppy language.

Instead of forming a circle I should have stated that they will eventually arrive again at the starting position.
It may take a vast multitude of steps, yet eventually rational intervals will return to the starting point from which they will then repeat.

>> adjective?)
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> It's obvious that any meantone with a tone as a rational fraction > of the
> octave will be an equal temperament. The n/d comma meantones don't > fit
> that pattern. Their tones are irrational and they never form a > circle.

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> Graham
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On 5/29/06, Charles Lucy <lucy@harmonics.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the strict correction.
> I am suitably scolded for my sloppy language.
>
> Instead of forming a circle I should have stated that they will
> eventually arrive again at the starting position.
> It may take a vast multitude of steps, yet eventually rational
> intervals will return to the starting point from which they will then
> repeat.

And of course by "rational intervals" you mean intervals that are
rational parts of an octave, so they're actually irrational numbers?

Keenan