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53edo has also found a certain dissemination as an edo tuning for [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian music]]. Due to its fifths being almost indistinguishable from just, it can also be used as an extended [[3-limit|Pythagorean tuning]]. | 53edo has also found a certain dissemination as an edo tuning for [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian music]]. Due to its fifths being almost indistinguishable from just, it can also be used as an extended [[3-limit|Pythagorean tuning]]. | ||
53edo's step is sometimes called the "Holdrian comma", despite the 53rd root of 2 being an irrational number; the | 53edo's step is sometimes called the "Holdrian comma", despite the 53rd root of 2 being an irrational number; the step's role as a "comma" comes from it being an approximation of the Pythagorean comma and syntonic comma (and is almost exactly equal to the geometric mean of the two). | ||
=== Prime harmonics === | === Prime harmonics === | ||