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One possibility is a generator around 30 cents. This generator can be chained both the positive and negative directions from the tonic 5 times without traversing the period, leading to a "complete" MOS of 77 tones, 5|5(7) in UDP notation. [[neutron77-maybe|Example 77-tone scale here]]. If it doesn't pan out to anything worthy of the original name, it could alternately be called "Lucky", "Jackpot", or "Fortune" due to the abundance of 7s in its construction and structure. Although given the problems stated below, maybe that's not so apposite.

Upon study of this MOS, a curious pattern of "blind spots" emerges for certain harmonics, namely that certain pairs of intervals considered to be the "major" and "minor" of that limit have one interval tuned well but not the other. In the 5-limit, 6/5 has an very close representative, but 5/4 has to settle for one more than 8c away. Likewise in the 7-limit, where 7/6 is more out-of-tune than 9/7, although a bit less so than the 5s. 11 and 13 are tuned okay; higher harmonics aren't really represented. It is likely one would need a high complexity for an accurate tuning of 5 and 7.

Upon study of this MOS, a curious pattern of "blind spots" emerges for certain harmonics, namely that certain pairs of intervals considered to be the "major" and "minor" of that limit have one interval tuned well but not the other. In the 5-limit, 6/5 has an very close representative, but 5/4 has to settle for one more than 8c away. Likewise in the 7-limit, where 7/6 is more out-of-tune than 9/7, although a bit less so than the 5s. 11 and 13 are tuned okay; higher harmonics aren't really represented. It is likely one would need a high complexity for an accurate tuning of 5 and 7. Also, the damage of 3 must practically exactly cancel the damage of 13 in the opposite direction, because of the accuracy of ~39/32 = 2\7. Similarly, the damages on primes 3, 5 and 7 are constrained for a similar reason by ~128/105 = 2\7.

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 One possibility is a generator around 30 cents. This generator can be chained both the positive and negative directions from the tonic 5 times without traversing the period, leading to a "complete" MOS of 77 tones, 5|5(7) in UDP notation. [[neutron77-maybe|Example 77-tone scale here]]. If it doesn't pan out to anything worthy of the original name, it could alternately be called "Lucky", "Jackpot", or "Fortune" due to the abundance of 7s in its construction and structure. Although given the problems stated below, maybe that's not so apposite.
-Upon study of this MOS, a curious pattern of "blind spots" emerges for certain harmonics, namely that certain pairs of intervals considered to be the "major" and "minor" of that limit have one interval tuned well but not the other. In the 5-limit, 6/5 has an very close representative, but 5/4 has to settle for one more than 8c away. Likewise in the 7-limit, where 7/6 is more out-of-tune than 9/7, although a bit less so than the 5s. 11 and 13 are tuned okay; higher harmonics aren't really represented. It is likely one would need a high complexity for an accurate tuning of 5 and 7.
+Upon study of this MOS, a curious pattern of "blind spots" emerges for certain harmonics, namely that certain pairs of intervals considered to be the "major" and "minor" of that limit have one interval tuned well but not the other. In the 5-limit, 6/5 has an very close representative, but 5/4 has to settle for one more than 8c away. Likewise in the 7-limit, where 7/6 is more out-of-tune than 9/7, although a bit less so than the 5s. 11 and 13 are tuned okay; higher harmonics aren't really represented. It is likely one would need a high complexity for an accurate tuning of 5 and 7. Also, the damage of 3 must practically exactly cancel the damage of 13 in the opposite direction, because of the accuracy of ~39/32 = 2\7. Similarly, the damages on primes 3, 5 and 7 are constrained for a similar reason by ~128/105 = 2\7.
 {{todo|expand|review|comment=More to come; contributions such as comma ideas, different generators, other useful modes/mappings with existing generators, etc. are welcome. I very obviously don't know what I'm doing.|inline=1}}