Talk:256/255

comma name proposal: "charisma"

What about "charisma" from "char"+"isma"? Suggested by Starshine on XA Discord. In programming, a char is, in modern usage, practically almost always an 8-bit byte. Therefore 2^8 = 256 is the number of values it can hold and 255 is the maximum (unsigned) integer value, hence 256/255. "bytisma" was suggested by Fumica to avoid naming conflict with the temperament of the same name "Charisma" in the magic family, which has an extension named "Charismic". However, the name "Charisma" for a temperament defies the intuitive implicit rule that something ending in "-isma" must be a comma and they seem to me to be very low-accuracy temperaments anyways so seem not to be of note/significance as temperaments as opposed to as scale blueprint patterns (as exotemperaments do have legitimate serious uses, just not insomuch for convincing harmony, but rather as interesting mappings). Therefore we also propose renaming "Charisma" and "Charismic" to something else. --Godtone (talk) 15:20, 25 December 2023 (UTC)