[r-t] Re: Anglia Alliance again

[HarryPoyner]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "HarryPoyner" <harrypoyner at ringtrue.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <ringing-theory-request at bellringers.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 9:43 AM
Subject: Anglia Alliance again


> Heretical thoughts on Anglia Alliance follow.  I've tried to write using
> Courier New in order to preserve tabulation, but the system would not
> accept, and "bounced" my letter back. This note will be sent in what my
> machine calls "plain text".
>
> There shouldn't be any problem until at least row 13.
>
> If the stage has n bells, then I find . . .
>
> row 13: 18
> row 15: 16
> row 17: 7n
> row 19 and all subsequent backstroke rows up to the pivot row: 9n
>
> The pivot row is row 9+n, in general.
> The details follow - please alter your font to COURIER NEW to lay it out
> properly:
>
>             (n=14)           (n=12)         (n=10)
>
> row 13  18  426T80135B7A9E   426T80135E79   4269801357
>             24T608           24T608         249608
> row 15  16  2T4068           2T4068         294068
>                   31B5A7E9         31E597         3175
> row 17  7n        3B1A5E79         3E1957         3715
>                     A1E597           9175           51
> row 19  9n          AE1957           9715           51
>                     EA9175           7951
> row 21  9n          E9A715           7591
>                     9E7A51
> row 23  9n          97E5A1
>
> Commentary:
> The "7n" places at row 17 complete the assembly of the half-lead
> pair-sequences on the front 8 which dodge past the pivot row (23). The
> pair-sequences for this method are . . .
> (14) pivot 9:E7:A5:B3:T2:04:86
> (12) pivot 7:95:E3:T2:04:86
> (10) pivot 5:73:92:04:86
> The subsequent "9n" rows - however many there may be - complete the
assembly
> of the pair-sequences by straightforward plain hunting, the bells on the
> front doing as many dodges as may be required to mark time, as it were,
> until the pivot line arrives.
>
> The conclusion I draw is that the Royal stage does indeed form a natural
> contraction of the method downwards from infinity. How you might describe
my
> thoughts in terms of "expanding" or "contracting" places I have no idea.
>
> And contraction from infinity through B to A demonstrates extension from A
> through B to infinity, does it not?
>
> Harry Poyner
>
>