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As far as I can tell, 12 ET is the smallest equal temperament that acceptably encodes the common variants of pentatonic scale. Meanwhile, the pentatonic scale probably appears because (3/2)^5 ≈ 8.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale#Use_of_pentat...
As far as I can tell, 12 ET is the smallest equal temperament that acceptably encodes the common variants of pentatonic scale. Meanwhile, the pentatonic scale probably appears because (3/2)^5 ≈ 8.