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== Cartography ==
== Cartography ==
Cartography nails down the 7-limit by adding the [[symbiotic comma]] to Schismerc's list of tempered commas.  The name comes from how good the mappings are, and also from the fact that it leads to the idea of "Mercator" being a dual reference to both Nicolas Mercator and Gerardus Mercator.
Cartography nails down the 7-limit by adding the [[symbiotic comma]] to Schismerc's list of tempered commas.  The name comes from how good the mappings are, and also from the idea of "Mercator" being a dual reference to both Nicolas Mercator and Gerardus Mercator.


Comma list: 385/384, 6250/6237, 19712/19683
Comma list: 385/384, 6250/6237, 19712/19683