Vavoom comma

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Interval information

Ratio	295 578 376 007 080 078 125 / 295 147 905 179 352 825 856
Factorization	2-68 × 318 × 517
Monzo	[-68 18 17⟩
Size in cents	2.523151¢
Name	Vavoom comma
Color name	quinla-seyo negative 7th, L5y17-7
FJS name	[math]\displaystyle{ \text{12d}{-7}^{5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5} }[/math]
Special properties	reduced, reduced harmonic
Tenney height (log2 nd)	136.002
Weil height (log2 max(n, d))	136.004
Wilson height (sopfr(nd))	275
Comma size	unnoticeable
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The Vavoom comma is a 5-limit comma, which manifests itself as the difference between a stack of seventeen classic diatonic semitones of 16/15 and a perfect twelfth of 3/1. Tempering it out in the 5-limit leads to the Vavoom family of temperaments.

See also

• Gallery of just intervals