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: This revision was by author [[User:xenwolf|xenwolf]] and made on <tt>2011-05-27 03:35:15 UTC</tt>.<br>
: This revision was by author [[User:xenwolf|xenwolf]] and made on <tt>2011-05-27 04:30:51 UTC</tt>.<br>
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: The original revision id was <tt>232324134</tt>.<br>
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: The revision comment was: <tt>Sorry, it's my German English that made the confusion happen.</tt><br>
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//...also the term [[centidegree]] was suggested//</pre></div>
//...also the term [[centidegree]] was suggested, but this seem to be used already as a unit for temperature.//</pre></div>
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Relative cent&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;Given any &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/EDO"&gt;EDO&lt;/a&gt; N, the size of an interval in &lt;em&gt;relative cents&lt;/em&gt; is N/12 times its size in &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Cent"&gt;cents&lt;/a&gt;; or equivalently, 100 N times its logarithm base 2. Hence in &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/7edo"&gt;7edo&lt;/a&gt;, the octave is 700 relative cents, in &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/53edo"&gt;53edo&lt;/a&gt;, 53000 relative cents and so forth.&lt;br /&gt;
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Relative cent&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;Given any &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/EDO"&gt;EDO&lt;/a&gt; N, the size of an interval in &lt;em&gt;relative cents&lt;/em&gt; is N/12 times its size in &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Cent"&gt;cents&lt;/a&gt;; or equivalently, 100 N times its logarithm base 2. Hence in &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/7edo"&gt;7edo&lt;/a&gt;, the octave is 700 relative cents, in &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/53edo"&gt;53edo&lt;/a&gt;, 53000 relative cents and so forth.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;...also the term &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/centidegree"&gt;centidegree&lt;/a&gt; was suggested&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>
&lt;em&gt;...also the term &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/centidegree"&gt;centidegree&lt;/a&gt; was suggested, but this seem to be used already as a unit for temperature.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>

Revision as of 04:30, 27 May 2011

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This revision was by author xenwolf and made on 2011-05-27 04:30:51 UTC.
The original revision id was 232324134.
The revision comment was: Sorry, it's my German English that made the confusion happen.

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Given any [[EDO]] N, the size of an interval in //relative cents// is N/12 times its size in [[Cent|cents]]; or equivalently, 100 N times its logarithm base 2. Hence in [[7edo]], the octave is 700 relative cents, in [[53edo]], 53000 relative cents and so forth.

Measuring the error of an approximation of an interval in an edo in terms of relative cents gives the relative error, which so long as the corresponding val is used is additive. For instance, the fifth of 12edo is 1.995 cents flat, or -1.955 cents sharp, which is therefore also its error in relative cents. The fifth of [[41edo]] is 1.654 relative cents sharp. Thus for 53=41+12, the fifth is -1.955 + 1.654 = -0.301 relative cents sharp, and hence (-0.301)*(12/53) = -0.068 cents sharp, which is to say 0.068 cents flat.

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//...also the term [[centidegree]] was suggested, but this seem to be used already as a unit for temperature.//

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<html><head><title>Relative cent</title></head><body>Given any <a class="wiki_link" href="/EDO">EDO</a> N, the size of an interval in <em>relative cents</em> is N/12 times its size in <a class="wiki_link" href="/Cent">cents</a>; or equivalently, 100 N times its logarithm base 2. Hence in <a class="wiki_link" href="/7edo">7edo</a>, the octave is 700 relative cents, in <a class="wiki_link" href="/53edo">53edo</a>, 53000 relative cents and so forth.<br />
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Measuring the error of an approximation of an interval in an edo in terms of relative cents gives the relative error, which so long as the corresponding val is used is additive. For instance, the fifth of 12edo is 1.995 cents flat, or -1.955 cents sharp, which is therefore also its error in relative cents. The fifth of <a class="wiki_link" href="/41edo">41edo</a> is 1.654 relative cents sharp. Thus for 53=41+12, the fifth is -1.955 + 1.654 = -0.301 relative cents sharp, and hence (-0.301)*(12/53) = -0.068 cents sharp, which is to say 0.068 cents flat.<br />
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<em>...also the term <a class="wiki_link" href="/centidegree">centidegree</a> was suggested, but this seem to be used already as a unit for temperature.</em></body></html>