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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">29edo divides the 2:1 octave into 29 equal steps of approximately 41.37931 cents.

29 is the lowest edo which approximates the 3:2 just fifth more accurately than 12edo: 3/2 = 701.955... cents; 17 degrees of 29edo = 703.448... cents. Since the fifth is slightly sharp, 29edo is a [[positive temperament]] -- a Superpythagorean instead of a Meantone system.

The third (and of course second) is the only harmonic, of the intelligibly low ones anyway, that 29-edo approximates, and it does so stunningly well. Accordingly it's best use is as an equally tempered pythagorean scale, which despite yall's focus on insane microtonal stuff is still a good thing to have around. It does give some good approximations of other just ratios, but without the harmonics themselves, making them into actual chords in sensible progressions is impossible.

==Intervals of 29edo==

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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"><html><head><title>29edo</title></head><body>29edo divides the 2:1 octave into 29 equal steps of approximately 41.37931 cents.<br />

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29 is the lowest edo which approximates the 3:2 just fifth more accurately than 12edo: 3/2 = 701.955... cents; 17 degrees of 29edo = 703.448... cents. Since the fifth is slightly sharp, 29edo is a <a class="wiki_link" href="/positive%20temperament">positive temperament</a> -- a Superpythagorean instead of a Meantone system.<br />

29 is the lowest edo which approximates the 3:2 just fifth more accurately than 12edo: 3/2 = 701.955... cents; 17 degrees of 29edo = 703.448... cents. Since the fifth is slightly sharp, 29edo is a <a class="wiki_link" href="/positive%20temperament">positive temperament</a> -- a Superpythagorean instead of a Meantone system. <br />

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The third (and of course second) is the only harmonic, of the intelligibly low ones anyway, that 29-edo approximates, and it does so stunningly well. Accordingly it's best use is as an equally tempered pythagorean scale, which despite yall's focus on insane microtonal stuff is still a good thing to have around. It does give some good approximations of other just ratios, but without the harmonics themselves, making them into actual chords in sensible progressions is impossible.<br />

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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">29edo divides the 2:1 octave into 29 equal steps of approximately 41.37931 cents.
 is the lowest edo which approximates the 3:2 just fifth more accurately than 12edo: 3/2 = 701.955... cents; 17 degrees of 29edo = 703.448... cents. Since the fifth is slightly sharp, 29edo is a [[positive temperament]] -- a Superpythagorean instead of a Meantone system.
+The third (and of course second) is the only harmonic, of the intelligibly low ones anyway, that 29-edo approximates, and it does so stunningly well. Accordingly it's best use is as an equally tempered pythagorean scale, which despite yall's focus on insane microtonal stuff is still a good thing to have around. It does give some good approximations of other just ratios, but without the harmonics themselves, making them into actual chords in sensible progressions is impossible.
 ==Intervals of 29edo==
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-is the lowest edo which approximates the 3:2 just fifth more accurately than 12edo: 3/2 = 701.955... cents; 17 degrees of 29edo = 703.448... cents. Since the fifth is slightly sharp, 29edo is a &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/positive%20temperament"&gt;positive temperament&lt;/a&gt; -- a Superpythagorean instead of a Meantone system.&lt;br /&gt;
+is the lowest edo which approximates the 3:2 just fifth more accurately than 12edo: 3/2 = 701.955... cents; 17 degrees of 29edo = 703.448... cents. Since the fifth is slightly sharp, 29edo is a &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/positive%20temperament"&gt;positive temperament&lt;/a&gt; -- a Superpythagorean instead of a Meantone system. &lt;br /&gt;
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+The third (and of course second) is the only harmonic, of the intelligibly low ones anyway, that 29-edo approximates, and it does so stunningly well. Accordingly it's best use is as an equally tempered pythagorean scale, which despite yall's focus on insane microtonal stuff is still a good thing to have around. It does give some good approximations of other just ratios, but without the harmonics themselves, making them into actual chords in sensible progressions is impossible.&lt;br /&gt;
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