[Magictour] Re: Stats

The two new closed tours, being derived from the same geometrical tour, are
the real 00o, the second numbering being a cyclic renumbering of the first.
The pattern of the quartes is very similar to 00n.

I've now put diagrams of the four geometrical tours and their arithmetical
forms on the KTN website (irregular tours page). Other related pages to be
updated later.

I've recently been reading about the history of the Knights Templar, and it
seems that they were founded in 1118-19 by one Hugues de Payen, from
Champagne, and that he was married to Catherine St Clair. After the closure
of the order in 1314 some of the dispersed knights were supposed to have
gone to Scotland and fought at the battle of Bannockburn. One of the St
Clairs (Sinclairs), an old Scottish family, built the famous Rosslyn Chapel.
Where did the Knight's Templar go after that - emigrate to Canada? Could
this account for Hugues Mackay's devotion to the cause of the knight?

Another thought on names: If your group is going to discover lots more
tours, putting "Mackay, Meyrignac and Stertenbrink" on every one is going to
be a bit laborious (and sound like a firm of international comodity brokers,
or somesuch). How about following the example of the group of French
mathematicians who wrote collectively under the name Nicholas Bourbaki? As a
suitably esoteric sounding name how about Aleister MacMeyster?

GPJ 2 July 2003



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