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- Subject: Re: Square Dance Algebra
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.185054.9655@adobe.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:50:54 GMT
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- In article <C1ItEH.42K@boa.cs.unm.edu> jensen@boa.cs.unm.edu (Kris Jensen) writes:
- >>sufficient to convert any symmetric parallel wave
- >>formation into any other symmetric parallel wave formation
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- >Okay, I'll confess ignorance...what do you mean by "symmetric"?
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- By symmetric I mean that each person is diagonally opposite the person that
- they began being diagonally opposite from.
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- In other words, you can assume that the initial position is symmetric, and
- you don't need to be able to get into asymmetric ending positions. If you
- assume that the initial position is
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- 0 1 2 3
- 4 5 6 7
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- you have to be able to get to
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- 7 1 2 3 (you exchange person 0
- 4 5 6 0 and person 7)
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- but you don't have to be able to get to
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- 1 0 2 3 (you exchange person 0
- 4 5 6 7 and person 1)
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- because this last position is no longer symmetric.
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- __ -paul asente
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- >Most square dance calling is "symmetric" in the sense that whatever
- >is happening on one side of the square is also happening on the
- >other side. If one draws a line through the middle of a square that
- >divides the square in two halves, each half will contain 2 gents
- >and 2 ladies, 2 heads and 2 sides, etc.
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- >But I have the feeling that "symmetric" has a different technical
- >meaning here. So for me (and any other math? graph theory? impaired
- >folks who might be lurking out there), how about an example?
- >Take the waves formed by Heads Square Thru 4, Step to a wave. What
- >would be another symmetric parallel wave formation?
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- >Thanks much...
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- >Kris (who wants to play too, but can't if she doesn't know the rules...)
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