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28812/28561 (the Tesseract Comma) is a small comma in the 2.3.7.13 subgroup. It is the amount by which four 13/7 sevenths fall short of the sixth harmonic, and the amount by which four 14/13 semitones fall short of the 4/3 perfect fourth. It can be factored into the Voltage Comma and the Gamelisma, which provides the 77 & 87 temperament Cubical (see below).
Temperaments
Tesseract
Tempering out the Tesseract Comma in its minimal subgroup, 2.3.7.13, yields the rank-3 Tesseract temperament.
Subgroup: 2.3.7.13
Comma list: 28812/28561
Mapping: [⟨2 -4 0], ⟨2 0 1], ⟨3 -1 1]]
Optimal tuning (CTE): ~2 = 1/1, ~14/13 = 124.539, ~7/4 = 967.452
Optimal ET sequence: 9, 10, 19, 29, 37b, 48, 49f, 58, 67, 68, 77, 87
Badness: 2.528
Cubical
By factoring the Tesseract comma into the Voltage Comma and Gamelisma, we get the rank-2 temperament Cubical. This temperament is so named because its lattice is the same as Tesseract, but with one dimension collapsed; similarly, a cube can be thought of as a Tesseract with one of its dimensions collapsed.
Subgroup: 2.3.7.13
Comma list: 28672/28561, 1029/1024
Mapping: [⟨10 -12], ⟨0 4], ⟨3 1]]
Optimal tuning (CTE): ~2 = 1/1, ~13/8 = 841.527
Optimal ET sequence: 10, 37b, 47, 57, 67, 77, 87, 97, 107, 124b, 144
Badness: 1.261
Etymology
The name Tesseract Comma was chosen by Unque in 2025. This name was chosen because tempering the comma cleaves the Perfect Fourth into four parts, and a tesseract is the 4D regular polytope made from four-sided regular polygons.