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|Ratio = | | Ratio = 578 509 309 952 / 576 650 390 625 | ||
|Name = linus comma | | Name = linus comma | ||
|Comma = yes | | Color name = sz<sup>10</sup>g<sup>10</sup>8, saquinbizogu octave | ||
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The '''linus comma''' ({{monzo|legend=1| 11 -10 -10 10 }}) is a [[small comma|small]] [[7-limit]] [[comma]] measuring about 5.57{{cent}}. It is the difference between a stack of 10 [[15/14]]'s and the [[octave]]. | |||
== Temperaments == | == Temperaments == | ||
Tempering out this comma alone in the 7-limit results in the rank-3 [[linus]] temperament. Edos not divisible by 10 cannot temper it out. For technical details see [[Kalismic temperaments #Linus]]. | |||
== Etymology == | |||
The name ''linus'' was given by [[Gene Ward Smith]] in 2011, referring to the fact that it is a "line comma" since the simplest comma pump will simply march along a line of the tetrad lattice<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_99424.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Line commas'']</ref><ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_99457.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Decoid and linus'']</ref>. | |||
A 2016 article on this wiki by [[Mason Green]], not aware of this comma already having been named, dubbed it the ''higherlovesma'', and the corresponding rank-3 temperament ''winwood''. | |||
== Notes == | |||
[[Category:Linus]] | |||
[[Category:Commas named for their regular temperament properties]] | |||