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''This page is about the 5-limit rank-2 temperament. For the 3-limit equal temperament, see [[12edo]].''

'''Compton''' is a [[regular temperament|temperament]] that takes [[12edo]]'s [[circle of fifths]] for the [[3-limit]], but the [[5/1|fifth harmonic]] is given its own generator instead of being mapped to one of 12edo's intervals. Essentially, it is the [[5-limit]] temperament which [[tempering out|tempers out]] the Pythagorean comma, [[531441/524288]]. This equates any Pythagorean interval with its [[enharmonic]] counterparts, for example, the diminished fourth [[8192/6561]] with the major third [[81/64]], and the two kinds of Pythagorean semitones, diatonic [[256/243]] and chromatic [[2187/2048]], are merged into a single interval of 1/12 octave, which serves as the [[period]]. The [[generator]] can then be seen as any ptolemaic interval (the alteration of a Pythagorean interval by a [[syntonic comma]]), but is most usefully [[5/4]], the ptolemaic major third, or 81/80, the syntonic comma itself.

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			''This page is about the 5-limit rank-2 temperament. For the 3-limit equal temperament, see [[12edo]].''

	'''Compton''' is a [[regular temperament\|temperament]] that takes [[12edo]]'s [[circle of fifths]] for the [[3-limit]], but the [[5/1\|fifth harmonic]] is given its own generator instead of being mapped to one of 12edo's intervals. Essentially, it is the [[5-limit]] temperament which [[tempering out\|tempers out]] the Pythagorean comma, [[531441/524288]]. This equates any Pythagorean interval with its [[enharmonic]] counterparts, for example, the diminished fourth [[8192/6561]] with the major third [[81/64]], and the two kinds of Pythagorean semitones, diatonic [[256/243]] and chromatic [[2187/2048]], are merged into a single interval of 1/12 octave, which serves as the [[period]]. The [[generator]] can then be seen as any ptolemaic interval (the alteration of a Pythagorean interval by a [[syntonic comma]]), but is most usefully [[5/4]], the ptolemaic major third, or 81/80, the syntonic comma itself.		'''Compton''' is a [[regular temperament\|temperament]] that takes [[12edo]]'s [[circle of fifths]] for the [[3-limit]], but the [[5/1\|fifth harmonic]] is given its own generator instead of being mapped to one of 12edo's intervals. Essentially, it is the [[5-limit]] temperament which [[tempering out\|tempers out]] the Pythagorean comma, [[531441/524288]]. This equates any Pythagorean interval with its [[enharmonic]] counterparts, for example, the diminished fourth [[8192/6561]] with the major third [[81/64]], and the two kinds of Pythagorean semitones, diatonic [[256/243]] and chromatic [[2187/2048]], are merged into a single interval of 1/12 octave, which serves as the [[period]]. The [[generator]] can then be seen as any ptolemaic interval (the alteration of a Pythagorean interval by a [[syntonic comma]]), but is most usefully [[5/4]], the ptolemaic major third, or 81/80, the syntonic comma itself.