[r-t] Rapid Rap etc, plain leads

[Mike Ovenden]

> > 720 Spliced Rapid Rap, Hekaton, and unnamed
>
> Top stuff, Mike. Am I right in counting three plain leads of Rapid Rap?
>
> MBD

3 plain leads of Rapid Rap, 3 plain leads of unnamed, 9 plain leads of
Hekaton.  So a better ratio of plains to calls than seems to be achievable
in a 1440 of Rapid Rap.  And not too many types of call either.

A 720 seems to be the way to go if you want to name stuff without ringing a
peal.

If it's lots of plain leads of RR you want, you probably need to ring a
peal: either something like PJE's 1-banana composition, or perhaps a 2880
would be reasonable (there surely has to be more room for manoeuvre than in
a 1440?).


While on the subject of the 1440 RR...

> >Nice comp PABS. Is this (6) the maximum number of plain
> >leads possible?
>
> I think so - it is possible to find two sets of six blocks that can each
> be joined with a q-set of plains, but the missing three blocks can't
> then be joined.
>

Yes, nice one Philip.  Saved me a lot of messing around.  The "I think so"
doesn't sound very positive!  I suspect you're right, though.  Have you
tried some exhaustive search process?  The situation is complicated by the
fact that you can have the same block appear more than once - there's a lot
of flexibility in traversing the cuboctahedron to eliminate duplicate leads.
For example, 9 blocks can be joined with 12 plain leads using the following
2 plain qsets

  215634  523146  354261  436512  641325  162453
 p251364 p532416 p345621 p463152 p614235 p126543

  214365  426153  645231  563412  351624  132546
 p241635 p462513 p654321 p536142 p315264 p123456

Doesn't seem to help though.


Mike