3025/3024
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reduced
S22 / S24
3025/3024, the lehmerisma, is an 11-limit unnoticeable comma measuring about 0.57 ¢. It is the difference between 55/54 and 56/55, between 121/120 and 126/125, between 225/224 and 243/242, and between 385/384 and 441/440, as well as the amount by which two 12/11 neutral seconds falls short of 25/21, the quasi-tempered minor third.
It factors into two superparticular commas: (4375/4374)(9801/9800).
Temperaments
Tempering it out leads to the lehmerismic temperament, which splits 28/27 into two equal parts, each representing 55/54~56/55. See Rank-4 temperament #Lehmerismic (3025/3024) for some technical details. See Lehmerismic temperaments for a collection of rank-3 temperaments where it is tempered out.
Etymology
This comma was named by Gene Ward Smith in 2004 after the American mathematician D. H. Lehmer[1].
See also
Notes
- ↑ Yahoo! Tuning Group | Re: [tuning-math Digest Number 1011]