460/459

460/459, the scanisma or vicewolf comma, is a 23-limit superparticular comma of about 3.77 cents. It forms the difference between 23/17 (vicesimotertial wolf fourth) and 27/20 (classical wolf fourth). It is also the amount by which a stack of 23/18 (the vicesimoterial major third) and 20/17 (the diatismic minor third) exceed 3/2 (the perfect fifth). Tempering it out defines the scanismic temperament, which enables the scanismic chords.

Interval information

Ratio	460/459
Factorization	22 × 3-3 × 5 × 17-1 × 23
Monzo	[2 -3 1 0 0 0 -1 0 1⟩
Size in cents	3.767649¢
Names	scanisma, vicewolf comma
Color name	23o17uy1, twethosuyo 1sn, Twethosuyo comma
FJS name	[math]\displaystyle{ \text{d}{-2}^{5,23}_{17} }[/math]
Special properties	superparticular, reduced
Tenney norm (log2 nd)	17.6878
Weil norm (log2 max(n, d))	17.691
Wilson norm (sopfr(nd))	58
Comma size	small
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Etymology

The words scanisma and vicewolf were introduced by Xenllium in 2023. The former refers to 460 Scania, the asteroid (itself named for a province of Sweden), and the latter is a contraction of vicesimotertial wolf into a single word.

See also

• Small comma
• List of superparticular intervals