Vulture comma

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Interval information
Ratio 10485760000/10460353203
Factorization 224 × 3-21 × 54
Monzo [24 -21 4
Size in cents 4.1998373¢
Name vulture comma
Color name ssy42, Sasaquadyo comma
FJS name [math]\text{m2}^{5,5,5,5}[/math]
Special properties reduced
Tenney height (log2 nd) 66.5719
Weil height (log2 max(n, d)) 66.5754
Wilson height (sopfr (nd)) 131
Harmonic entropy
(Shannon, [math]\sqrt{n\cdot d}[/math])
~2.47519 bits
Comma size small
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The vulture comma (monzo: [24 -21 4, ratio: 10485760000/10460353203) of 4.200 cents, is the amount by which four grave fourth intervals of 320/243 exceed 3/1, in other words (320/243)4/3. It is also the amount by which a stack of four syntonic commas falls short of the 256/243 Pythagorean Limma.

Temperaments

Tempering out this comma leads to the vulture family of temperaments.

Etymology

The vulture comma was named by Paul Erlich in 2002[1].

Notes