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62 years is the amount of years in a leap week calendar cycle which corresponds to a year of 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 23 seconds, meaning it is both a simple cycle for a calendar, and 62 being a multiple of 31 makes it a harmonically useful and playable cycle. The corresponding maximal evenness scales are 15 & 62 and 11 & 62. | 62 years is the amount of years in a leap week calendar cycle which corresponds to a year of 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 23 seconds, meaning it is both a simple cycle for a calendar, and 62 being a multiple of 31 makes it a harmonically useful and playable cycle. The corresponding maximal evenness scales are 15 & 62 and 11 & 62. | ||
The 11 & 62 temperament | The 11 & 62 temperament is called mabon, named so because its associated year length corresponds to an autumnal equinoctial year. In the 2.9.7 subgroup tempers out 44957696/43046721, and the three generators of 17\62 correspond to [[16/9]]. It is possible to extend this to the 11-limit with comma basis {896/891, 1331/1296}, where 17\62 is mapped to [[11/9]] and two of them make [[16/11]]. In addition, three generators make the patent val 9/8, which is also created by combining the flat patent val fifth from 31edo with the sharp 37\62 fifth. | ||
The 15 & 62 temperament, corresponding to the leap day cycle, is an unnamed extension to [[valentine]] in the 13-limit. | The 15 & 62 temperament, corresponding to the leap day cycle, is an unnamed extension to [[valentine]] in the 13-limit. |