Interesting Esoterica

Bells, Motels and Permutation Groups

Article by McGuire, Gary
  • 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.

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McGuire2012
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article
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2014-12-17
date_published
2012-03-01

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@article{McGuire2012,
	key = {McGuire2012},
	type = {article},
	title = {Bells, Motels and Permutation Groups},
	author = {McGuire, Gary},
	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.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2014-12-17},
	date_published = {2012-03-01},
	urls = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1835,http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.1835v1},
	collections = {Easily explained,Music,Fun maths facts,Combinatorics,The groups group},
	month = {mar},
	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}
}