[r-t] Re: Grandsire Triples

Mark Davies mark at snowtiger.net
Sat Oct 23 21:49:43 UTC 2004


> A counting argument says no - the number of coursing orders is (N-2)!,
> but the number of callings is [2*(N-1)]^m (assuming a single hunt bell
> and two types of call), which quickly gets a lot bigger.

[2*(N-2)]^m for Grandsire or other twin-hunt. Of course if the tenors are
together on higher numbers it all continues to work nicely!

The other thing is, the minimum number of calls isn't necessarily the
shortest way of calling Grandsire (or any method) round.

MBD





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