[r-t] 8 spliced atw 7com

Don Morrison dfm at ringing.org
Thu Mar 29 08:50:24 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:38 AM, John Camp <camp at bellringers.org> wrote:
> But you can see MBD's point, from a compositional or mathematical point
> of view.  If you ring three leads LLC, it seems, from one point of view,
> odd that the number of com depends on where you start.

Actually, I can't.

Not all properties of a composition are invariant under rotation. Yes,
truth and length are. But lots of interesting ones aren't: musical
rows a composition contains, ease of calling, whether or not it's
tenors together, whether it's particularly easy for handbells.



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Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
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