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Article: Change ringing has a peal for all
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 29, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In change ringing, the aim is to play a church's set of bells in
a different order each time, until all the possibilities are
exhausted.
In each change, a bell may move only one place in the order. For
instance, the No. 1 bell in the first change could be No. 2 in the
next change, but not No. 3.
On a set of five bells, there are 120 combinations in a "peal"
all of a bell set's possible permutations. With six bells it rises
to 720; with seven, to 5,040.
Beyond that, it becomes impractical to ring all ...