127834/1

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Interval information
Ratio 127834/1
Subgroup monzo 2.7.23.397 [1 1 1 1
Size in cents 20356.694¢
Names 127834th harmonic,
29-wood major 119th
Color name c16397o23oz9
FJS name [math]\text{P120}^{7,23,397}[/math]
Special properties harmonic
Tenney height (log2 nd) 16.9639
Weil height (log2 max(n, d)) 33.9278
Wilson height (sopfr (nd)) 429
Harmonic entropy
(Shannon, [math]\sqrt{n\cdot d}[/math])
~0 bits
open this interval in xen-calc

127834/1, the 127834th harmonic, or 29-wood supermajor 119th, is 16 octaves above 63917/32768. It is a part of 397-limit harmony, the 78th prime number.

The number appears in a sequence of fractional part of [math]1.5^n[/math] decreasing monotonically to zero, meaning the sequence offers progressively closer approximations to repeated stacks of 3/2. Indeed, this interval is close to a stack of perfect fifths by two parameters - both its fractional part decreases progressively, and it is also better than all the [math]1.5^k[/math] for [math]0\lt k\lt 29[/math]. The difference between the stack of 29 perfect fifths and 127834/1, which is the 68630377364883/68630356164608 comma is 0.534 millicents, or 1 in 2.24 million parts of an octave.

Equal divisions of the 127834/1

For practical purposes, 127834/1 is too complex and too large to be used as an equivalence interval, being over 100 times larger than the human hearing range.

Trivia

Prime numbers 23 and 397, having indices 9 and 78, are 69 prime numbers apart. Nice.

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