User:Lériendil/Didacus

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Didacus
Subgroups 2.5.7, 2.5.7.11
Comma basis 3136/3125 (2.5.7);
176/175, 1375/1372 (2.5.7.11)
Reduced mapping ⟨1; 2 5 9]
Edo join 6 & 19
Generator (POTE) ~28/25 = 193.772 ¢
MOS scales 1L 5s, 6L 1s, 6L 7s
Ploidacot diseph
Minmax error (7-odd limit) ??? ¢;
(11-odd limit) ??? ¢
Target scale size (7-odd limit) 13 notes;
(11-odd limit) 19 notes

Didacus is an temperament of the 2.5.7 subgroup, tempering out 3136/3125, the hemimean comma, such that two intervals of 7/5 reach three intervals of 5/4; the generator is therefore (7/5)/(5/4) = 28/25, two of which stack to 5/4 and three of which stack to 7/5, notable for being one of the most efficient traversals of the no-threes subgroup. 31edo is a very good tuning of didacus, with its generator 5\31 (which is the "mean tone" of 31edo); but 25edo, 37edo, and 68edo among others are good tunings as well. As this generator tends to be slightly less than 1/6 of the octave, MOS scales of didacus tend to consist of 6 long intervals interspersed by sequences of diesis-sized steps (representing 50/49~128/125), therefore bearing similar properties to those of slendric.

It also has a simple extension to prime 11 - undecimal didacus, by tempering out 176/175, the valinorsma, so that (5/4)2 is equated to 11/7. Further extensions to primes 13, 17, and 19, known as roulette and mediantone, are also possible.

As for prime 3, while didacus has as a weak extension (among others) septimal meantone, strong extensions that include 3 are rather complex. Hemithirds (25 & 31) tempers out 1029/1024 to find the fifth at 3/2 ~ (8/7)3, and therefore the 3rd harmonic 15 generators down; and hemiwürschmidt (31 & 37) tempers out 2401/2400 so that 5/48 is equated to 6/1, finding the 3rd harmonic 16 generators up (and as described for the page for 5-limit würschmidt, there is also a free extension to find 23/1 at 28 generators). These two mappings intersect in 31edo, though the latter spans the optimal range for undecimal didacus specifically.

For technical data, see Hemimean clan #Didacus.

Interval chain

In the following table, odd harmonics and subharmonics 1–35 are labeled in bold.

# Cents* Approximate ratios
2.5.7.11 intervals Intervals of extensions
Hemithirds Hemiwürschmidt
0 0.0 1/1
1 194.4 28/25, 49/44, 55/49
2 388.9 5/4, 44/35 144/115
3 583.3 7/5
4 777.7 11/7, 25/16 36/23
5 972.1 7/4, 44/25 184/105
6 1166.6 49/25, 55/28 96/49, 45/23
7 161.0 11/10, 35/32 23/21, 126/115
8 355.4 49/40, 121/98 128/105 60/49, 92/75
9 549.9 11/8 48/35, 63/46, 115/84
10 744.3 49/32, 77/50 32/21 75/49, 23/15
11 938.7 55/32, 121/70 128/75 12/7
12 1133.1 77/40 40/21 48/25, 23/12
13 127.6 121/112 16/15 15/14
14 322.0 77/64, 121/100 25/21 6/5, 115/96
15 516.4 4/3 75/56
16 710.8 121/80 112/75 3/2
17 905.3 5/3 42/25
18 1099.7 121/64 28/15 15/8
19 94.1 25/24 21/20

* In CWE undecimal didacus

Tunings

Optimized tunings

Prime-optimized tunings
Weight-skew\Order Euclidean
Constrained Destretched
Tenney (2.5.7) CTE: ~28/25 = 193.650¢ (2.5.7) POTE: ~28/25 = 193.772¢
Equilateral (2.5.7) CEE: ~28/25 = 193.681¢

(12/29-comma)

Tenney (2.5.7.11) CTE: ~28/25 = 194.246¢ (2.5.7.11) POTE: ~28/25 = 194.556¢
DR and equal-beating tunings
Optimized chord Generator value Polynomial Further notes
4:5:7 (+1 +2) ~28/25 = 197.346 g5 − 3g2 + 2 = 0 Close to -1/5-comma
5:7:8 (+2 +1) ~28/25 = 193.829 g5g2 − 4 = 0 Close to 37/95-comma
7:8:10 (+1 +2) ~28/25 = 193.630 g5 + g2 − 3 = 0 Close to 33/80-comma
8:11:14 (+1 +1) ~28/25 = 195.043 g9g5 − 1 = 0
11:14:16 (+3 +2) ~28/25 = 192.698 g9 − 5g5 + 6 = 0

Tuning spectrum

EDO
generator
Eigenmonzo
(unchanged interval)
*
Generator (¢) Comments
1\7 171.429 7dee val, lower bound of (2.5.7) 7-odd-limit diamond monotone
2\13 184.615 13e val, lower bound of (2.5.7.11) 11-odd-limit diamond monotone
3\19 189.474 19e val
125/112 190.115 Full-comma
7\44 190.909 44dee val
4\25 192.000
9\56 192.857 56e val
14\87 193.103 87e val
5/4 193.157 1/2-comma
19\118 193.220 118ee val
5\31 193.548
7/4 193.765 2/5-comma
21\130 193.846 130e val
16\99 193.939
27\167 194.012 167e val
11\68 194.118
7/5 194.171 1/3-comma
17\105 194.286
23\142 194.366
11/8 194.591
6\37 194.595
196/125 194.678 1/4-comma
19\117 194.872 117d val
13\80 195.000
11/10 195.001
7\43 195.349
11/7 195.623
8\49 195.918
28/25 196.198 Untempered tuning
9\55 196.364 55de val
1\6 200.000 Upper bound of (no-threes) 7- and 11-odd-limit diamond monotone

* Besides the octave

Other tunings

  • DKW (2.5.7): ~2 = 1\1, ~~28/25 = 194.061