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A few conventions have evolved in this wiki that would be good to keep consistent with.
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(please feel free to add rules in use here, and please provide reasons for it! Thanks!)
 
== Decimal numbers ==
Use the English convention with decimal point, when articles are in English language (which is mostly the case).
 
{| class="wikitable"
! correct
! wrong
|-
| style="background-color: #efe" | 701.995
| style="background-color: #fee" | <s>702,995</s>
|}
 
==Logarithmic interval measures ==
For normal tables, we decided to stick to [[cent|cent]] values with a fixed precision, mostly 2 or 3 in the fractional part. 3 is helpful when serving as a canonical reference point for people to compare their own calculations with, which helps in the development of table creators such as [[Piotr Grochowski]]'s [https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/249278782/ one for Selected just intervals by error]. Its main purpose is to give an idea of interval sizes and relation to known intervals in the [[12edo|12edo]] system of western music. Alternative measures are acceptable if they better reflect the idea behind an interval system, scale etc. More than one logarithmic size column should be avoided.
 
== Links ==
Links - both wiki-internal and external ones - should have meaningful text; something like "[[Conventions|here]]" is not very useful for understanding and orientation, often the page title is a good starting point.
 
: ''For more info see [[Help:Here-links]]''
 
== See also ==
* [[Wiki help]]
* [[Help:Help|Help]]
 
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