<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"></span><font face="courier new, monospace">On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 4:52 PM, <<a href="mailto:pje24@cantab.net">pje24@cantab.net</a>> wrote:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> All you need to know for a method is which bell pivots (4), and that</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> tells you everything else.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> An isolated "e" tells you nothing, and looking up "e" tells you</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> merely what the first leadhead is.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> It's a bit of a stretch to claim labelling something as "e" instead</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> of "4" or "4,12" is a more intuitive and meaningful system. And with</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> the present system it completely makes makes a balls up of eg bob</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> triples as Don points out.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">But in this regard your system really isn't so great, either, as Plain Bob has a different code at *every* stage.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">In any case, my point in starting all this was "be careful, I'm not so sure discussing just what 'Plain Bob lead heads' means is as trivially easy as you may think." The volume of subsequent discussion seems to support this point. :-)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">-- </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">Don Morrison <<a href="mailto:dfm@ringing.org">dfm@ringing.org</a>></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">"Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent" -- Seneca the Younger,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">_Phaedra_ (Slight griefs talk, great ones are speechless)</font></div><div><br></div>
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