[r-t] A practical (well, sort of) extension question

[Don Morrison]

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Philip Saddleton <pabs at cantab.net> wrote:
> I assume this is a comment on (G)B.6?

No, it wasn't intended as a comment on anything at all.

They are five randomly generated methods (or, if you prefer,
"methods"), generated a few years ago by Philip Earis for a curious
composition. I have so little intuition as to how this method
extension stuff works that I really have no idea what does or does not
extend, but it seemed a plausible, if ham-handed, way to get at some
evidence of whether or not it is true that "most methods don't extend"
(the answer to which may be self-evident to those who do understand
how extension works, but sure isn't to me).


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Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an
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        -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Natural History of Intellect"