979/972

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979/972, a.k.a. the basement comma, is tempered out by the Floor temperament.

Tempering this comma on its own gives the basement temperament, a 2.3.11.89 subgroup tuning.

Interval information
Ratio 979/972
Subgroup monzo 2.3.11.89 [-2 -5 1 1
Size in cents 12.423055¢
Name Basement comma
Color name 89o1o1
FJS name [math]\text{P1}^{11,89}[/math]
Special properties reduced
Tenney height (log2 nd) 19.86
Weil height (log2 max(n, d)) 19.8703
Wilson height (sopfr (nd)) 119
Harmonic entropy
(Shannon, [math]\sqrt{n\cdot d}[/math])
~2.99734 bits
Comma size small
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