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* 12et is most prominent in the 2.3.5.7.17.19 subgroup, and the next ET that does this better is 72.  
* 12et is most prominent in the 2.3.5.7.17.19 subgroup, and the next ET that does this better is 72.  


== Rank two temperaments ==
== As a regular temperament ==
The seventh partial ([[7/4]]) is "represented" by an interval which is sharp by over 31 cents, and stands out distinctly from the rest of the chord in a tetrad. Such tetrads are often used as dominant seventh chords in functional harmony, for which the 5-limit JI version would be 1/1 - 5/4 - 3/2 - 16/9, and while 12et officially supports septimal meantone via the [[patent val]] {{val|12 19 28 34}}, its credentials in the 7-limit department are distinctly cheesy. It cannot be said to represent 11 or 13 at all, though it does a quite credible 17 and an even better 19. Nevertheless its relative tuning accuracy is quite high, and 12edo is the fourth [[The Riemann Zeta Function and Tuning#Zeta EDO lists|zeta integral edo]].
 
In terms of the kernel, which is to say the commas it tempers out, it tempers out the Pythagorean comma, 3<sup>12</sup>/2<sup>19</sup>, the Didymus comma, [[81/80]], the diesis, [[128/125]], the diaschisma, [[2048/2025]], the Archytas comma, [[64/63]], the septimal quartertone, [[36/35]], the jubilisma, [[50/49]], the septimal semicomma, [[126/125]], and the septimal kleisma, [[225/224]]. Each of these affects the structure of 12et in specific ways, and tuning systems which share the comma in question will be similar to 12et in precisely those ways.
 
=== Rank two temperaments ===
* [[List of 12et rank two temperaments by badness]]
* [[List of 12et rank two temperaments by badness]]
* [[List of 12et rank two temperaments by complexity]]
* [[List of 12et rank two temperaments by complexity]]