Comment by sid-kap (sidharth-kapur) on You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad. · 2024-08-23T01:18:55.553Z · LW · GW

so that after 11 stacked 'equal-tempered' 5ths, each of them 1/50th of a semitone sharp, we arrive back at a perfect octave multiple of the original frequency.

Don't the 5ths need to be slightly flat (700 cents instead of 702 cents) to have the octaves in tune?