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Man and Beast 01: Constitutional Characters. Systematic naming of symmetric and forward-only coprime radial pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Sat, Jun 13, 2009 03:47 PM UTC:
(1) I corrected the root-3 ND cubic in brackets because I thought of it right away. (2) Gilman answers the two questions that the example compounds are unbound. That means they have all 4 bindings and can reach every cube. Unicorn alone reaches only 1 in 4, and so it takes 4 ordinary Unicorns properly spaced to ''cover'' the board. Usually in a CV one would conceive of implementing plain old Unicorn. Now actually compounding Unicorn generally will get the piece to reach every cell. The answer is in the text last paragraph before Notes. Hey, test questions come from texts. However, Gilman has not addressed that compounds here are not inevitably unbound, for examples, with well-chosen leaper that does not change binding of the Unicorn, or some Forward Only enhancement you could think of.