45/32

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Interval information
Ratio 45/32
Factorization 2-5 × 32 × 5
Monzo [-5 2 1
Size in cents 590.22372¢
Names smaller pental tritone,
smaller diatonic tritone,
ptolemaic augmented fourth
Color name y4, yo 4th
FJS name [math]\text{A4}^{5}[/math]
Special properties reduced
Tenney height (log2 nd) 10.4919
Weil height (log2 max(n, d)) 10.9837
Wilson height (sopfr (nd)) 21
Harmonic entropy
(Shannon, [math]\sqrt{n\cdot d}[/math])
~4.53456 bits

[sound info]
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45/32 is the smaller pental tritone, a diatonic tritone of 5-limit just intonation- specifically, it is the ptolemaic augmented fourth. It is a syntonic comma away from the Pythagorean augmented fourth 729/512, which means it is justly tuned in 1/6 syntonic comma meantone. It is separated from its inversion of 64/45 by the diaschisma, 2048/2025 (c. 19.6 cents).

See also