Equations of state for APR nuclear matter (solid curve) and for quark matter with the phenomenologically parameterized equation of state (3) with ﹩a_{2}=( 150\ \mathrm{MeV}\,) ^{2}﹩ [dashed curves: upper curve has no perturbative correction (﹩c=0﹩), lower one has ﹩c=0.3﹩]. For each quark matter equation of state, the bag constant B_eff was fixed by requiring that nuclear matter give way to quark matter at ﹩\rho _{c}=1.5n_{\mathrm{sat}\,}﹩. The figure shows that when we include perturbative‐type corrections, quark matter has a p(μ) relation almost identical to that of APR nuclear matter, and its E(p) is also very similar over the range of pressures that is relevant to compact star masses.