At 05:32 PM 1/10/98 -0700, guy wrote: >hunt (hunt) vt. [[ME hunten < OE huntian , prob. < base of hentan , to ... >a search 5 Bell Ringing a series of regularly varying sequences in >ringing a group of from five to twelve bells hunt down 1 to pursue until ... >Def #5 of "hunt" is kinda interesting..... Wonder who's bell will get rung? Henry Brusch and I are probably the only two change ringers on the pianotech list, so maybe it'll be ours? B-}) BTW, since you found it interesting, to illustrate how that definition of "hunt" works, here is an example on four bells (despite the definition starting from 5 bells). 1234 2143 2413 4231 4321 3412 3142 1324 1234 All the bells in this sequence "plain hunt", which means they move in the sequence from their original position in an orderly fashion, never moving more than one "place" at a time or staying in on place more than two rows. If you follow the #1 bell, it starts at the beginning of the row, in the following rows hunts out to the back of the row and then hunts in to its home position. With a simple variation to plain hunt called a "dodge" where two or more bells exchange places, the number of rows equal to the factor of the number of bells can be rung. In this case the factor of 4 is 24 (4x3x2x1) so by plain hunting and adding a dodge whenever the #1 bell is in the #1 position all 24 rows can be produced. On five bells there are 120 rows, six - 720 and seven 5040. 5040 changes rung according to the rules set down by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers is also called a "peal" and is the standard ringer's "salute". Aren't you glad you brought it up? B-}) >>Welcome home, Newton. We've missed you, over and over and over. >> >and over and over.... We did indeed! Welcome Home, Newton! John John Musselwhite, RPT - Calgary, Alberta Canada musselj@cadvision.com - http://www.cadvision.com/musselj/
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