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'''736/729''', the '''23-limit Tenney/Cage comma''', is a 2.3.23 subgroup comma. It is the amount by which the octave-reduced 23rd harmonic [[23/16]] exceeds the [[729/512|Pythagorean augemented fourth (729/512)]].  
'''736/729''', the '''23-limit Tenney/Cage comma''', is a 2.3.23 subgroup comma. It is the amount by which the octave-reduced 23rd harmonic [[23/16]] exceeds the [[729/512|Pythagorean augmented fourth (729/512)]].  


== Notation ==
== Notation ==
This interval is significant in the [[Functional Just System]] and [[Helmholtz-Ellis notation]] as the formal comma to translate a Pythagorean interval to a nearby 23-limit (vicesimotertial) interval.  
This interval is significant in the [[Functional Just System]] and [[Helmholtz-Ellis notation]] as the formal comma to translate a Pythagorean interval to a nearby 23-limit (vicesimotertial) interval. The symbols being used in Helmholtz-Ellis notation are virtually identical to up and down arrows, and the authors attribute them to [[James Tenney]] and {{w|John Cage}}, who have possibly used them for [[72edo|1\72]].  


=== Sagittal notation ===
=== Sagittal notation ===