<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Graham wrote:<br><br>"It would make sense to put a practical limit on the stages checked. I<br>
suggest 36 is used as the maximum, as that is the stage where a plain<br>
course of a Treble Dodging method is a peal length."<br><br></div>That appears to make sense although exactly how would the limit be applied?<br></div>For example suppose we have an I-bell method called x (thinking of I as likely being 6,8 or 10) that extends to some stage J, I<J=<36.<br></div>But then doesn't go again until some K>36? <br></div>But unlike the London case we actually know that K exists.<br></div>I don't have a concrete such example but it seems perfectly possible (even likely) that they exists. <br></div>Is the extension to stage J allowed to be called x under this suggested modification or not?<br><br></div>If not then it seems unfair because the extension might have been easily demonstrated to be an infinite family (just one with only two members below 36). <br><div>But if so then the only difference to the London case is that we can show the indefinite extension requirement is fulfilled - so then it still comes back to what you can or can't prove - and rule potentially has to be applied in the absence of certainty. <br><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Alan<br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br><div><div><div><div><br><br><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 March 2017 at 11:47, Graham John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:graham@changeringing.co.uk" target="_blank">graham@changeringing.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 22 March 2017 at 11:27, Robin Woolley <<a href="mailto:robin@robinw.org.uk">robin@robinw.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span><span class="">> I'm not, and never have been, in sympathy with the indefinite extension requirement.<br>
<br>
</span>It would make sense to put a practical limit on the stages checked. I<br>
suggest 36 is used as the maximum, as that is the stage where a plain<br>
course of a Treble Dodging method is a peal length.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Graham<br>
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