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A finite set of 5-limit intervals are labeled ''just'', especially when the interval in question is the simplest in the [[Interval category|category]]. For example, 5/4 is known as the ''just major third''<ref>[https://marsbat.space/pdfs/HEJI2_legend+series.pdf ''The Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation (HEJI)''] by [[Marc Sabat]] and [[Thomas Nicholson]] from Plainsound Music Edition</ref>. Indeed, ''just intonation'' traditionally meant specifically the 5-limit version thereof. Even so, justness is not to be generalized to all 5-limit intervals, nor can we assume all just intervals 5-limit in contemporary usage.  
A finite set of 5-limit intervals are labeled ''just'', especially when the interval in question is the simplest in the [[Interval category|category]]. For example, 5/4 is known as the ''just major third''<ref>[https://marsbat.space/pdfs/HEJI2_legend+series.pdf ''The Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation (HEJI)''] by [[Marc Sabat]] and [[Thomas Nicholson]] from Plainsound Music Edition</ref>. Indeed, ''just intonation'' traditionally meant specifically the 5-limit version thereof. Even so, justness is not to be generalized to all 5-limit intervals, nor can we assume all just intervals 5-limit in contemporary usage.  


The term ''ptolemaic'' could also refer to the 5-limit<ref>[https://marsbat.space/pdfs/JI.pdf ''Fundamental Principles of Just Intonation and Microtonal Composition''] by Thomas Nicholson and Marc Sabat —"'Ptolemaic' refers to intervals combining only the primes 2, 3, and 5."</ref>. On this wiki it is part of the [[2.3-equivalent class and Pythagorean-commatic interval naming system|Pythagorean-commatic interval naming system]], and refers specifically to intervals that contain a single factor of harmonic 5. We distinguish multi-order 5-limit intervals by ''diptolemaic'', ''triptolemaic'', and so on.
The term '''ptolemaic''' could also refer to the 5-limit<ref>[https://marsbat.space/pdfs/JI.pdf ''Fundamental Principles of Just Intonation and Microtonal Composition''] by Thomas Nicholson and Marc Sabat —"'Ptolemaic' refers to intervals combining only the primes 2, 3, and 5."</ref>. On this wiki it is part of the [[2.3-equivalent class and Pythagorean-commatic interval naming system|Pythagorean-commatic interval naming system]], and refers specifically to intervals that contain a single factor of harmonic 5. We distinguish multi-order 5-limit intervals by ''diptolemaic'', ''triptolemaic'', and so on.


== Edo approximation ==
== Edo approximation ==