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Pentadacus is a [[nonoctave]] [[regular temperament]] in the 5.7.11 [[subgroup]] which tempers out the comma [[831875/823543]]. It is even more exotic than [[Bohlen-Pierce]], lacking both [[2/1]] and [[3/1]], and typically it would be used with an [[equave]] of [[5/1]]. It is generated by a [[meantone]]-esque small whole tone interval that represents [[54/49]]. Stacking 3 of these tones gives [[7/5]] and 7 of them give [[11/5]]. Pentadacus has both low [[complexity]] (especially by the standards of the 5/1-equivalent world, where scales have lots of notes) and low [[error]] if tuned correctly, providing an [[efficiency|efficient]] traversal of the 5.7.11 subgroup. [[14ed5]] is an inaccurate but important tuning of Pentadacus, because in 14ed5, the whole tone generator corresponds to a single step of 14ed5, although the renditions of 7/5&11/5
{{Infobox regtemp
| Title = Pentadacus
| Subgroups = 5.7.11
| Comma basis = [[831875/823543]]
| Edo join 1 = c14 | Edo join 2 = c43
| Mapping = 1; 3 7
| Generators = 55/49
| Generators tuning = 194.8
| Optimization method = CWE
| MOS scales = [[1L 12s (5/1-equivalent)|1L 12s<5/1>]], [[1L 13s (5/1-equivalent)|1L 13s<5/1>]], [[14L 1s (5/1-equivalent)|14L 1s<5/1>]], [[14L 15s (5/1-equivalent)|14L 15s<5/1>]]
| Odd limit 1 = ? | Mistuning 1 = ? | Complexity 1 = ?
}}


Pentadacus is connected to [[didacus]] temperament as both share rheir whole role genweafor
'''Pentadacus''' is a [[nonoctave]] [[regular temperament]] in the 5.7.11 [[subgroup]] which tempers out the comma [[831875/823543]]. It is even more exotic than [[Bohlen-Pierce]], lacking both [[2/1]] and [[3/1]], and typically it would be used with an [[equave]] of [[5/1]], also known as the pentave. It is generated by a [[meantone]]-esque small whole tone interval that represents [[54/49]]. Stacking 3 of these tones gives [[7/5]] and 7 of them give [[11/5]]. Properly-tuned pentadacus generates the [[5/1]]-equivalent [[mos scales]] [[1L 1s (5/1-equivalent)|1L 1s<5/1>]], [[1L 2s (5/1-equivalent)|1L 2s<5/1>]], etc. until ending the monolarge mos chain at [[1L 13s (5/1-equivalent)|1L 13s<5/1>]], followed by [[14L 1s (5/1-equivalent)|14L 1s<5/1>]], [[14L 15s (5/1-equivalent)|14L 15s<5/1>]]. Pentadacus has both low [[complexity]] (especially by the standards of the 5/1-equivalent world, where scales have lots of notes) and low [[error]] if tuned correctly, providing an [[efficiency|efficient]] traversal of the 5.7.11 subgroup. It was first discovered and named by [[User:CompactStar|CompactStar]] in 2026.
 
Pentadacus can be thought of as a compressed [[14ed5]] until you hit [[5/1]], as is best exemplified by the [[1L 13s (5/1-equivalent)|1L 13s<5/1>]] Pentadacus[14] mos. Because of this, many good smaller pentadacus tunings are of the form (14''n'' + 1)ed5 such as [[29ed5]], [[43ed5]], and [[57ed5]]. In this respect, it is similar to a [[cluster temperament]], but does not seem to exactly meet the definition of a cluster temperament. 14ed5 is also close to [[6edo]], the familiar whole-tone scale with octaves, so pentadacus is very alien (being a step above even tritave-equivalent temperaments) but can lapse into sounding like the familiar whole-tone scale at times. 6 generators in pentadacus can sound a bit like a [[stretched and compressed tuning|compressed octave]] but it is usually inaccurate unless you are using a very sharp tuning like 14ed5.
 
Pentadacus is connected to the octave-repeating [[didacus]] temperament as both have a small whole tone generator for which 3 stack to 7/5, and [[didacus|undecimal didacus]] can actually be viewed not only as an extension of didacus to include the 11th harmonic, but also an extension of pentadacus to include octaves. Pentadacus's connection to [[14ed5]] (which is effectively 6edo with a just 5/1) is a lot like didacus's connection to [[6edo]].
 
== Interval chain ==
{{Todo|inline=1|complete table}}
 
{| class="wikitable center-1 right-2"
! # !! Cents* !! Approximate ratios
|-
| 0 || 0.0 || '''1/1'''
|}
 
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