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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">|-84 53&gt;, known as Mercator's comma or the 53-comma, is a small comma of 3.615 cents which is the amount by which 53 fifths exceed 31 octaves, in other words (3/2)^53/2^31. For equal divisions N up to 8745, the comma is tempered out if and only if 53 divides N. Examples of such EDOs include [[53edo]], [[159edo]], [[212edo]], [[265edo]], [[742edo]].</pre></div>
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">|-84 53&gt;, known as Mercator's comma or the 53-comma, is a small comma of 3.615 cents which is the amount by which 53 fifths exceed 31 octaves, in other words (3/2)^53/2^31. For equal divisions N up to 8745, the comma is tempered out if and only if 53 divides N. Examples of such EDOs include [[53edo]], [[159edo]], [[212edo]], [[265edo]], [[742edo]], [[795edo]], [[954edo]], [[1749edo]].</pre></div>
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Mercator's comma&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;|-84 53&amp;gt;, known as Mercator's comma or the 53-comma, is a small comma of 3.615 cents which is the amount by which 53 fifths exceed 31 octaves, in other words (3/2)^53/2^31. For equal divisions N up to 8745, the comma is tempered out if and only if 53 divides N. Examples of such EDOs include &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/53edo"&gt;53edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/159edo"&gt;159edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/212edo"&gt;212edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/265edo"&gt;265edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/742edo"&gt;742edo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Mercator's comma&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;|-84 53&amp;gt;, known as Mercator's comma or the 53-comma, is a small comma of 3.615 cents which is the amount by which 53 fifths exceed 31 octaves, in other words (3/2)^53/2^31. For equal divisions N up to 8745, the comma is tempered out if and only if 53 divides N. Examples of such EDOs include &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/53edo"&gt;53edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/159edo"&gt;159edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/212edo"&gt;212edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/265edo"&gt;265edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/742edo"&gt;742edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/795edo"&gt;795edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/954edo"&gt;954edo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/1749edo"&gt;1749edo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>

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|-84 53>, known as Mercator's comma or the 53-comma, is a small comma of 3.615 cents which is the amount by which 53 fifths exceed 31 octaves, in other words (3/2)^53/2^31. For equal divisions N up to 8745, the comma is tempered out if and only if 53 divides N. Examples of such EDOs include [[53edo]], [[159edo]], [[212edo]], [[265edo]], [[742edo]], [[795edo]], [[954edo]], [[1749edo]].

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<html><head><title>Mercator's comma</title></head><body>|-84 53&gt;, known as Mercator's comma or the 53-comma, is a small comma of 3.615 cents which is the amount by which 53 fifths exceed 31 octaves, in other words (3/2)^53/2^31. For equal divisions N up to 8745, the comma is tempered out if and only if 53 divides N. Examples of such EDOs include <a class="wiki_link" href="/53edo">53edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/159edo">159edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/212edo">212edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/265edo">265edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/742edo">742edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/795edo">795edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/954edo">954edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/1749edo">1749edo</a>.</body></html>