[r-t] Ben Constant's Yorkshire Royal

[Don Morrison]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:35 PM, tom willis <tompw at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Taking this to its logical extreme (as I tend to do), then surely any two
> peals of triples in a given method are the 'same', because you've just
> replaced one block of 5040 with another...

I think the same logic would lead you to observe that all peals of
plain major are different reductions of some block of of 40,320, which
could be exchanged with a different block of 40,320....




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