Squares

Squares is the rank-2 regular temperament tempering out the syntonic comma, 81/80, and the breedsma, 2401/2400. It has a ~9/7 generator, four of which make a perfect twelfth. Skwares is the no-5 subgroup version of this temperament.

See Meantone family #Squares and No-fives subgroup temperaments #Skwares for more technical data.

Interval chain

In the following table, prime harmonics are labeled in bold.

#	Cents *	Approximate Ratios
		11-limit	13-limit Extension
			Squares	Squad	Agora
0	0.0	1/1
1	425.6	9/7, 14/11		13/10
2	851.2	18/11, 33/20, 44/27	13/8	21/13
3	76.8	21/20, 28/27		27/26
4	502.4	4/3
5	928.0	12/7		22/13, 26/15
6	153.6	11/10, 12/11	13/12	14/13
7	579.2	7/5		18/13
8	1004.8	9/5, 16/9
9	230.4	8/7			15/13
10	656.0	16/11, 22/15	13/9
11	1081.6	28/15	13/7	24/13
12	307.2	6/5	13/11
13	732.8	32/21			20/13
14	1158.4	49/25, 64/33, 96/49	52/27
15	384.0	56/45	26/21	16/13
16	809.6	8/5			21/13
17	35.2	36/35, 64/63

* in 11-limit CTE tuning

Scales

• Skwares8
• Skwares11
• Skwares14

Music

• Square 8 by Chris Vaisvil
• Optimum Rains by Joel Kivelä