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==Examples ==
==Examples ==


The diatonic scale can be generated by iterating a) twice, introducing first the octave, then the perfect fifth, and then iterating b) 3 times, replacing '''a''' with '''sa''' for the current smallest step '''s''' and for every step '''a''' such that '''a''' > '''s''' at the current stage. It has step signature 5L 2s, and in the symmetric mode, it has step arrangement LsLLLsL. No other arrangement of 5 large and 2 small step sizes results in a SN scale.
The diatonic scale can be generated by iterating a) twice, introducing first the octave, then the perfect fifth, and then iterating b) 3 times, replacing '''a''' with '''sa''' for every occurrence of any step '''a''' such that '''a''' > '''s''' at the current stage ('''s''' is the current smallest step). It has step signature 5L 2s, and in the symmetric mode, it has step arrangement LsLLLsL. No other arrangement of 5 large and 2 small step sizes results in a SN scale.


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