[r-t] Exhausted search spaces

[Alexander Holroyd]

I would find it quite helpful to know a few statistics: especially roughly 
how long the search takes, and the number of compositions, the maximum of 
certain types of music, etc.

E.g.:

I'm delighted to have lists of all minimus extents, all in-course doubles 
extents, all 5 part doubles extents (and to know the rought number of 
each) and to know that all doubles extents is not practical.

I'm a touch sceptical that anyone has searched the whole space of extents 
of plain bob minor.  I'd be more inclined to believe it if I saw the data.

If I know it takes 4 weeks to search all tenors together peals of 
Bogstandard Royal, I won't bother trying it for this evening's peal 
attempt.

If I know it only takes 5 minutes I might be tempted to try a search 
including my favourite split-tenor course.

If I know there are no cyclic 7-parts of Monkeyesque Major with all the 
-2345s, I won't bother looking.

Of course, one can find all this out oneself, but it could also be handy 
to have a list, if it's well organized.

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Richard Smith wrote:

>> Sounds like a good idea!
>
> I don't think it does.  What does it actually achieve. Suppose I do an 
> exhaustive search of ordinary length tenors-together peals of (say) Cornwall. 
> Assuming the list of compositions was very long (as I guess it would be), I 
> would probably extract a few that looked pleasing and publish them and ditch 
> the rest.  How does knowing that I've done this help anyone else?
>
> RAS
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