Canopic family

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This is a list showing technical temperament data. For an explanation of what information is shown here, you may look at the technical data guide for regular temperaments.

The canopus family of planar temperaments tempers out the canopus or mirkwai comma (monzo[0 3 4 -5, ratio: 16875/16807), a no-twos comma.

Canopic aka Mirkwai

Subgroup: 2.3.5.7

Comma list: 16875/16807 (canopus)

Mapping: [1 0 0 0], 0 1 3 3], 0 0 -5 -4]]

Mapping generators: ~2, ~3, ~7/5

Minimax tuning:

[[1 0 0 0, [0 4/7 -4/7 5/7, [0 -3/7 3/7 5/7, [0 0 0 1]
Eigenmonzos (unchanged-intervals): 2, 8/7, 6/5
[[1 0 0 0, [0 8/11 -4/11 5/11, [0 -6/11 3/11 10/11, [0 0 0 1]
Eigenmonzos (unchanged-intervals): 2, 10/9, 8/7

Optimal ET sequence31, 41, 72, 152, 224

Badness: 0.342 × 10-3

Projection pairs: 5 84375/16807 7 16875/2401 to 2.3.7/5

Indra

Subgroup: 2.3.5.7.11

Comma list: 540/539, 1375/1372

Mapping: [1 0 0 0 2], 0 1 3 3 0], 0 0 -5 -4 3]]

Mapping generators: ~2, ~3, ~7/5

Mapping to lattice: [0 2 1 2 3], 0 -1 2 1 -3]]

Lattice basis:

15/14 length = 0.6184, 55/36 length = 0.7585
Angle (15/14, 55/36) = 68.1048 deg

Minimax tuning:

[[1 0 0 0 0, [10 10 -3 0 -5, [0 0 1 0 0, [6 6 -1 0 -3, [20 18 -6 0 -9]
Eigenmonzos (unchanged-intervals): 2, 11/9, 5/4

Optimal ET sequence31, 41, 72, 152, 224, 631d, 855d

Badness: 0.266 × 10-3

Projection pairs: 5 84375/16807 7 16875/2401 11 1372/125 to 2.3.7/5

Scales: indra31

Shibi

Subgroup: 2.3.5.7.11.13

Comma list: 540/539, 729/728, 1375/1372

Mapping: [1 0 0 0 2 -3], 0 1 3 3 0 3], 0 0 -5 -4 4]]

Optimal ET sequence31f, 39df, 41, 72, 111, 152f, 183, 224, 631d, 855d

Badness: 0.721 × 10-3

Yajna

Subgroup: 2.3.5.7.11.13

Comma list: 540/539, 625/624, 1375/1372

Mapping: [1 0 0 0 2 -4], 0 1 3 3 0 11], 0 0 -5 -4 3 -20]]

Mapping generators: ~2, ~3, ~7/5

Minimax tuning:

  • 13-odd-limit
[[1 0 0 0 0 0, [4/5 6/5 -4/5 0 0 1/5, [8/5 2/5 -3/5 0 0 2/5, [44/25 26/25 -24/25 0 0 11/25, [62/25 48/25 -27/25 0 0 3/25, [8/5 2/5 -8/5 0 0 7/5]
Eigenmonzos (unchanged-intervals): 2, 10/9, 13/10
  • 15-odd-limit minimax
[[1 0 0 0 0 0, [0 1 0 0 0 0, [5/4 1/2 0 -5/16 0 5/16, [1 1 0 -1/4 0 1/4, [5/4 3/2 0 3/16 0 -3/16, [1 1 0 -5/4 0 5/4]
Eigenmonzos (unchanged-intervals): 2, 14/13, 4/3

Optimal ET sequence31, 49f, 72, 103, 121, 152f, 193, 224

Badness: 0.700 × 10-3

Vibhu

Subgroup: 2.3.5.7.11.13

Comma list: 351/350, 540/539, 1375/1372

Mapping: [1 0 0 0 2 1], 0 1 3 3 0 6], 0 0 -5 -4 3 -14]]

Optimal ET sequence31, 64cdf, 72, 103, 111, 152, 175f, 183, 469f

Badness: 0.826 × 10-3

Vish

Subgroup: 2.3.5.7.11.13

Comma list: 325/324, 364/363, 540/539

Mapping: [1 0 0 0 2 2], 0 1 3 3 0 -2], 0 0 -5 -4 3 10]]

Optimal ET sequence31f, 41, 72, 121, 193

Badness: 0.930 × 10-3