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> Are there 41 or 42 of these methods?</p>
<p dir="ltr">It depends what you mean by "these methods".</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are 41 "standard" (horrible word) surprise minor methods, that is to say symmetric surprise methods with plain bob lead heads, 5 lead courses, no more than 2 consecutive blows, no single changes, no 5ths made above the treble, and which have the right parity structure to generate an extent.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Simon on his blog when talking about 42 methods was talking about something different, namely that there are 42 combinations of methods if you take any 6 overworks and combine them with any of 7 underworks. Or in simpler terms, 6 * 7 = 42.</p>
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