[r-t] 41 Surprise Minor quarter

King, Peter R peter.king at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Mar 23 10:55:37 UTC 2005


And if one dropped the rules some more treating a 1/4 as a practice and
allowed 3 repetitions (or possibly more), how many could you squeeze in
then? There are at least 53 leads available to get the length.

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> Alexander Holroyd
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> Subject: Re: [r-t] 41 Surprise Minor quarter
> 
> 
> It seems that this is the answer to a different question (the 
> shortest 
> multi-extent block).  A quarter peal is usually allowed to 
> have some rows 
> once and others twice, which gives considerably more 
> flexibility.  I'm no 
> expert, but I should think one could fit more than 23m into a 
> quarter...
> 
> ANder
> 
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Ben Willetts wrote:
> 
> > Peter King:
> >> I'm sure if I looked on various websites I could find this.
> >
> > Yes, you could, quite easily.
> >
> >> Is it possible to fit the 41 minor into a 1/4?
> >
> > I think I am correct in saying that the shortest length so 
> far for all 41 is
> > a 3600 -- five extents -- by John Warboys, so it depends 
> how far your
> > definition of a "quarter" stretches!
> >
> > I think the most so far got into a 1440 is the 23 Carlisle- and
> > Cambridge-above methods, which seem to splice together much 
> more easily than
> > the London- and Norwich-above ones (why is this?).
> >
> > Ben
> >
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