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Since humans tend to perceive notes an octave apart as having the same pitch class, the 2-limit is said to be "easy to collapse", with this collapse being generally implemented in lattices. This will reduce the dimensionality of the lattice by one, allowing the [[5-limit]] (whose intervals are represented by 3 coordinates corresponding to each prime) to be drawn in 2 dimensions, forming the familiar classical [[Tonnetz]].
Since humans tend to perceive notes an octave apart as having the same pitch class, the 2-limit is said to be "easy to collapse", with this collapse being generally implemented in lattices. This will reduce the dimensionality of the lattice by one, allowing the [[5-limit]] (whose intervals are represented by 3 coordinates corresponding to each prime) to be drawn in 2 dimensions, forming the familiar classical [[Tonnetz]].
Counterintuitively, applying octave-equivalence to a lattice is mathematically equivalent to [[tempering out]] 2/1 – a single interval is used to stand for all intervals an octave apart, just as in meantone, a single interval stands in for all intervals an 81/80 apart.


The 2-limit is equivalent to the [[1-odd-limit]], [[1edo]], and 1-''p''-fdo with arbitrary value of ''p'' (including [[AFDO|1afdo]] and [[IFDO|1ifdo]]).
The 2-limit is equivalent to the [[1-odd-limit]], [[1edo]], and 1-''p''-fdo with arbitrary value of ''p'' (including [[AFDO|1afdo]] and [[IFDO|1ifdo]]).
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