Valentine comma
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The valentine comma (ratio: 1990656/1953125, monzo: [13 5 -9⟩ is a medium 5-limit comma. It is the amount by which a stack of four 25/24's falls short of 6/5, or a stack of five 25/24's falls short of 5/4. In terms of commas, it is the difference between the lesser diesis (128/125) and the kleisma (15625/15552), and is also equal to one-half of the difference between nine 25/24's and a perfect fifth (3/2). Tempering it out leads to the 5-limit version of valentine temperament. As it splits the perfect fifth into 9, and equates 5/4 to 5 of these steps, it is related to 9edf and therefore to Carlos Alpha.