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

[Don Morrison]

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Philip Earis <pje24 at cantab.net> wrote:
> PABS:
> > I would venture that most rung methods do not extend, because most rung
> > methods have plain bob lead heads, and G(B)5 requires that the extension
> > must also...
>
> Aaargh! This is a seriously slavish, back-to-front way of looking at
> things.
>
> The Decisions are a human-written framework produced by individuals
> (flawed, as we all are) according to their peculiar worldview. They
> are not some axiomatically correct divine truth.

In PABS defense, I did ask "which, if any, of the following
asymmetric, non-PB-leadend treble dodging major methods have
extensions to a higher stage (not necessarily royal)? CC-algorithm or
the more fecund PABS-algorithm, as you choose". I think that was
asking a question for which G(B)5 would disqualify potential
extensions. That is, I was spcifically asking about what happens when
the algorithms currently under discussion are applied, not what is a
suitable extension (whatever that means, if anything).

And I thank him for his clear answer, regarding what his informed
intuition tells him.



-- 
Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
"When it comes to rare probabilities, our mind is not designed to get
things quite right. For the residents of a planet that may be exposed
to events on one has yet experienced, this is not good news."
    -- Daniel Kahneman, _Thinking, Fast and Slow_