40/31

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Interval information
Ratio 40/31
Subgroup monzo 2.5.31 [3 1 -1
Size in cents 441.2781¢
Names tricesimoprimal semidiminished fourth,
tricesimoprimal supermajor third
Color name 31uy4, thiwuyo 4th
FJS name [math]\displaystyle{ \text{P4}^{5}_{31} }[/math]
Special properties reduced
Tenney height (log2 nd) 10.2761
Weil height (log2 max(n, d)) 10.6439
Wilson height (sopfr(nd)) 42
Harmonic entropy
(Shannon, [math]\displaystyle{ \sqrt{nd} }[/math])
~4.20582 bits
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In 31-limit just intonation, 40/31 is either the tricesimoprimal semidiminished fourth or tricesimoprimal supermajor third. It is sharp of the Pythagorean major third (81/64) by 2560/2511, sharp of the septimal major third (9/7) by 280/279, and flat of the perfect fourth (4/3) by 31/30.

Approximation

40/31 is approximated by 7\19 or 11\30, and is extremely close to 57\155 (being just 0.012 ¢ sharp of it).

See also