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65.16Do not obsess over mathematical purity
Musical inversion can be approximate.
What matters:
ascending shape becomes descending.
Try:
C-E♭-G
versus:
G-E♭-C.
That is retrograde-like too.
Or:
C-A-F.
Listen to which transformation sounds related.