[r-t] Court Bob Minor

Richard Smith richard at ex-parrot.com
Tue Sep 19 15:07:31 UTC 2017


Robin Woolley wrote:

> It has to be a 1440 since the method fails the test of 
> what I choose to call Smith's Theorem - which, in brief, 
> states that if the transposition between any to 
> corresponding rows (treble in same place) in the first 
> lead is of odd order, then an extent is **impossible**.

Which Smith are you attributing this to?  It's certainly not 
me.  In any case, a theorem is a result which has been 
proved to be true.  This result is fairly clearly not true 
as Grandsire Minor is a obvious exception.

RAS



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