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Note that multicommas could just as well serve the purpose of a unique identifier for temperaments. There’s no particular reason to prefer the canonical multimap to the canonical multicomma. By convention, however, the canonical multimap is the one that’s used.
Note that multicommas could just as well serve the purpose of a unique identifier for temperaments. There’s no particular reason to prefer the canonical multimap to the canonical multicomma. By convention, however, the canonical multimap is the one that’s used.


If you need to do this process for a higher dimensionality than 6, then you'll need to understand how I found the symbols for each cell of Figure 6a. Here's how:
If you need to do this process for a higher dimensionality than 6, then you'll need to understand how I found the symbols for each cell of Figure 6b. Here's how:


# Take the rank, halved, rounded up. In our case, <span><math>\lceil \frac{r}{2} \rceil = \lceil \frac{2}{2} \rceil = \lceil 1 \rceil = 1</math></span>. Save that result for later. Let’s call it <span><math>x</math></span>.
# Take the rank, halved, rounded up. In our case, <span><math>\lceil \frac{r}{2} \rceil = \lceil \frac{2}{2} \rceil = \lceil 1 \rceil = 1</math></span>. Save that result for later. Let’s call it <span><math>x</math></span>.