# Bells, Motels and Permutation Groups

• Published in 2012
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This article is about the mathematics of ringing the changes. We describe the mathematics which arises from a real-world activity, that of ringing the changes on bells. We present Rankin's solution of one of the famous old problems in the subject. This article was written in 2003.

### BibTeX entry

@article{McGuire2012,
abstract = {This article is about the mathematics of ringing the changes. We describe the mathematics which arises from a real-world activity, that of ringing the changes on bells. We present Rankin's solution of one of the famous old problems in the subject. This article was written in 2003.},
author = {McGuire, Gary},
month = {mar},
title = {Bells, Motels and Permutation Groups},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1835 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.1835v1},
year = 2012,
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {1203.1835},
primaryClass = {math.GR},
urldate = {2014-12-17},
collections = {Easily explained,Music}
}