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===Just intonation=== <!--Ptolemy's intense chromatic scale]] redirects directly here.--> {{Main|Just intonation#Twelve-tone scale}} In 5-limit [[just intonation]] the chromatic scale, '''Ptolemy's intense chromatic scale'''{{fact|date=November 2019}}, is as follows, with flats ''higher'' than their enharmonic sharps, and new notes between EβF and BβC (cents rounded to one decimal): :{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- ! ! C !! C{{music|#}} !! D{{music|flat}} !! D !! D{{music|#}} !! E{{music|flat}} !! E !! E{{music|#}}/F{{music|flat}} !! F !! F{{music|#}} !! G{{music|flat}} !! G !! G{{music|#}} !! A{{music|flat}} !! A !! A{{music|#}} !! B{{music|flat}} !! B !! B{{music|#}}/C{{music|flat}} !! C |- !Pitch ratio | 1 || {{frac|25|24}} || {{frac|16|15}} || {{frac|9|8}} || {{frac|75|64}} || {{frac|6|5}} || {{frac|5|4}} || {{frac|32|25}} || {{frac|4|3}} || {{frac|25|18}} || {{frac|36|25}} || {{frac|3|2}} || {{frac|25|16}} || {{frac|8|5}} || {{frac|5|3}} || {{frac|125|72}} || {{frac|9|5}} || {{frac|15|8}} || {{frac|48|25}} || 2 |- !Cents | 0 || 70.7 || 111.7 || 203.9 || 274.6 || 315.6 || 386.3 || 427.4 || 498 || 568.7 || 631.3 || 702 || 772.6 || 813.7 || 884.4 || 955 || 1017.6 || 1088.3 || 1129.3 || 1200 |} The fractions {{frac|9|8}} and {{frac|10|9}}, {{frac|6|5}} and {{frac|32|27}}, {{frac|5|4}} and {{frac|81|64}}, {{frac|4|3}} and {{frac|27|20}}, and many other pairs are interchangeable, as {{frac|81|80}} (the [[syntonic comma]]) is tempered out.{{clarify|date=October 2019|reason=Is this a process "as x is tempered out", a possibility "if x is tempered out", or a reason "since/because the x is tempered out"? What context or process includes or is defined by the syntonic comma being tempered out (equal temperament, 5-limit just, Pythagorean, ...)?}} Just intonation tuning can be approximated by [[19 equal temperament|19-EDO tuning]] (P5 = 11 steps = 694.74 cents).
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