<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>DFM wrote:<br><br><font face="courier new, monospace">Why do we believe that one-lead
methods are proscribed today? The only language that I can find in the
decisions that even comes close to this issue is "divisible into equal
parts which are called leads" -- but one part is clearly equal to
itself, so I don't think this precludes a one-lead method.<br><br></font>I vaguely recall this coming up before. I think (although I could be wrong) that it was decided the use of the plural for "parts" was enough to imply it had to be more than one. Although I agree with you that that it is far from clear that that is the intended meaning. <br></div>I supposed there used to be the rule that a method had to have more working bells than hunt bells (which of course ruled out all single lead methods a stroke) but when that got deleted the precise wording of <font face="courier new, monospace">"divisible into equal
parts which are called leads" </font>became rather more important and perhaps was overlooked slightly?<br><br></div>Rgds,<br></div>Alan<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 April 2017 at 15:41, Don Morrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfm@ringing.org" target="_blank">dfm@ringing.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Mark Davies <<a href="mailto:mark@snowtiger.net" target="_blank">mark@snowtiger.net</a>> wrote:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> Yes. We did consider trying to introduce single-lead methods </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div></span><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">One more thing. I've asked this before, but don't think I ever got an answer.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">Why do we believe that one-lead methods are proscribed today? The only language that I can find in the decisions that even comes close to this issue is "divisible into equal parts which are called leads" -- but one part is clearly equal to itself, so I don't think this precludes a one-lead method.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">Is there something in the decisions I've overlooked?</font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><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" target="_blank">dfm@ringing.org</a>></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">"Medieval man thought that truth had been revealed to him, so that he</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">was spared from its wild pursuit; the reckless energy that we give to</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">seeking it was turned in those days to the creation of beauty."</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"> -- Will Durant, _The Age of Faith_</font></div><div style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><br></div></font></span></div></div>
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