6000000edo: Difference between revisions

Eliora (talk | contribs)
No edit summary
Eliora (talk | contribs)
No edit summary
Line 2: Line 2:


While this system is absurdly large for any human application, from a technical standpoint it is the only one that rightfully bears the name [[Microtonal|'''microtonal''']], since it divides a tone, which is 1/6th of an octave, into 1'000'000 steps, and the SI prefix "micro-" denotes division of a unit into 1 million parts.
While this system is absurdly large for any human application, from a technical standpoint it is the only one that rightfully bears the name [[Microtonal|'''microtonal''']], since it divides a tone, which is 1/6th of an octave, into 1'000'000 steps, and the SI prefix "micro-" denotes division of a unit into 1 million parts.
This title can be contested by 1000000ed9/8, approx. 5884949edo, if a "tone" is defined to be a just [[9/8]] interval instead of an octave fraction.


== Theory ==
== Theory ==