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Tempering out this comma leads to the [[würschmidt family]] of temperaments. In any nontrivial tuning (that is, not 3edo), there is an exact neutral third between 5/4 and 6/5, which represents a tempering of [[625/512]]~[[768/625]] and can be used to represent [[11/9]]~[[27/22]] (or more accurately [[49/40]]~[[60/49]], tempering out [[2401/2400]] instead of or in addition to [[243/242]]).

[[Magic]] is a simpler analogue of würschmidt, reaching [[3/1]] with ([[5/4]])5 which exceeds 3/1 by the magic comma, and a even simpler analogue of würschmidt is [[dicot]], where [[3/2]] is reached by ([[5/4]])2. More interesting is that there is a lower-accuracy but more complex analogue of würschmidt if we look at the pattern; the powers of [[5/4]] go 2 (dicot), 5 (magic), 8 (würschmidt), corresponding to increasingly sharp tunings of 5 where each additional three 5's represent a lowering of [[25/16]] by another [[128/125]]; finally, at ([[5/4]])11 / ([[12/1]]), we get [[magus]], a sharp-major-third analogue of ~~Würschmidt~~.

[[Magic]] is a simpler analogue of würschmidt, reaching [[3/1]] with ([[5/4]])5 which exceeds 3/1 by the magic comma, and a even simpler analogue of würschmidt is [[dicot]], where [[3/2]] is reached by ([[5/4]])2. More interesting is that there is a lower-accuracy but more complex analogue of würschmidt if we look at the pattern; the powers of [[5/4]] go 2 (dicot), 5 (magic), 8 (würschmidt), corresponding to increasingly sharp tunings of 5 where each additional three 5's represent a lowering of [[25/16]] by another [[128/125]]; finally, at ([[5/4]])11 / ([[12/1]]), we get [[magus]], a sharp-major-third analogue of würschmidt.

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 Tempering out this comma leads to the [[würschmidt family]] of temperaments. In any nontrivial tuning (that is, not 3edo), there is an exact neutral third between 5/4 and 6/5, which represents a tempering of [[625/512]]~[[768/625]] and can be used to represent [[11/9]]~[[27/22]] (or more accurately [[49/40]]~[[60/49]], tempering out [[2401/2400]] instead of or in addition to [[243/242]]).
-[[Magic]] is a simpler analogue of würschmidt, reaching [[3/1]] with ([[5/4]])<sup>5</sup> which exceeds 3/1 by the magic comma, and a even simpler analogue of würschmidt is [[dicot]], where [[3/2]] is reached by ([[5/4]])<sup>2</sup>. More interesting is that there is a lower-accuracy but more complex analogue of würschmidt if we look at the pattern; the powers of [[5/4]] go 2 (dicot), 5 (magic), 8 (würschmidt), corresponding to increasingly sharp tunings of 5 where each additional three 5's represent a lowering of [[25/16]] by another [[128/125]]; finally, at ([[5/4]])<sup>11</sup> / ([[12/1]]), we get [[magus]], a sharp-major-third analogue of Würschmidt.
+[[Magic]] is a simpler analogue of würschmidt, reaching [[3/1]] with ([[5/4]])<sup>5</sup> which exceeds 3/1 by the magic comma, and a even simpler analogue of würschmidt is [[dicot]], where [[3/2]] is reached by ([[5/4]])<sup>2</sup>. More interesting is that there is a lower-accuracy but more complex analogue of würschmidt if we look at the pattern; the powers of [[5/4]] go 2 (dicot), 5 (magic), 8 (würschmidt), corresponding to increasingly sharp tunings of 5 where each additional three 5's represent a lowering of [[25/16]] by another [[128/125]]; finally, at ([[5/4]])<sup>11</sup> / ([[12/1]]), we get [[magus]], a sharp-major-third analogue of würschmidt.
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