Glacier comma
| Interval information |
The glacier comma is a 13-limit comma which is the difference between five small tridecimal neutral seconds of 13/12 and a perfect fifth (3/2). It is a quintic-particular[idiosyncratic term] interval, that is, of the form ((n + 5)/n) / ((n + 3)/(n + 2))5 = (S(n + 1)⋅S(n + 2)2) / (S(n + 3)2⋅S(n + 4)).
Temperaments
Tempering out this comma in the 2.3.13 subgroup leads to the glacier temperament.
See also
- Quinticular comma – another example of quintic-particular comma