The savart was originally identical to the heptaméride. Later, it was "rationalized" to be a logarithmically equal 1/300 of an octave. This latter will concern us here; for the earlier definition see heptaméride.
A savart is calculated as the 300th root of 2, or 2(1/300), with a ratio of approximately 1:1.002313162. It is an irrational number. A savart has an interval size of exactly 4 cents.
The formula for calculating the savart-value of any ratio r is: savarts = log10(r) * [300 / log10(2)] or savarts = log2(r) * 300.
This interval therefore divides the octave, which is assumed to have the ratio 2:1, into 300 equal parts. Thus a savart represents one degree in 300-edo tuning.
One potential defect of using heptamérides or the related jots, namely that the familiar 12-edo semitone does not come out with an integer number of the smaller division, is here avoided, since 300 divides evenly by 12. Thus, the 12-EDO semitone is exactly 25 savarts.
(Many thanks to John Chalmers for clarifying the history of savarts.)
Ellis, Alexander. 1885.
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