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### 1.183 Pythagorean comma

ES: coma pitagórico, I: comma pitagorico, F: comma pythagoricien, D: Pythagoräisches Komma, NL: komma van Pythagoras, DK: pythagoræisk komma, S: pytagoreiskt komma, FI: pytagorinen komma.

A sequence of fifths starting on C eventually circles back to C, but this C, obtained by adding 12 fifths, is 24 →cents higher than the C obtained by adding 7 octaves. The difference between those two pitches is called the Pythagorean comma.

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