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Added 2011
January 17th
A TOPIC
ABOUT NOTATION OF PINs, PINs POSITIONNING, TRACING
PAPER,
HALF-PERIODs CODING WHEN TRANSMITTING A KNOT.
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Please, keep in mind a very important caveat :
Usually when writing I do it from a formal point of view,
with (hopefully) " the general" as
target and not "the particular".
That is the way I was trained.
I have written several digital programs for cylindrical knots and I can
tell you that the only
notation that make sense is exclusively the one using digits and
numbers and certainly no
letters.
From a pragmatical, expedient, 'go as you are pushed' and personal
point of view the best
notation most often is not the 'most pure and robust", the one that can
be computerized but
it is the one the user will feel more at ease with.
In that sense there is no good or bad notations, just notations that
work or do not work.
Personaly when doing a knot in the cordage I don't even bother with
labelling the PINs :
I just need to identify the START pin on each edge and compute the
PIN-STEP.
I just have to give my full attention to the coding of the HP.
Problems arise, with those non-general, particular,
expedient notation, when a knot is
to be "transmitted" to someone else, then the only safe ground is
"general convention just
as for a computer".
I studied alone for months on end before getting my hands on The
Braider and later on the
books.
At the time of my lonely exploration it was not rare that I used half a
dozen stenographic
blocs and several pencils per week. (results are in my web pages
turkshead prior to N° 10
or 11 IIRC.)
Reading Schaake a Turner when I finally got my hands on those
works made me realize
my approximation
in tracing and notations procedures that had been hiding several
important
facts from an easy and almost immediate perception.
We need to distinguish TWO different logical levels of discussion here
if we are to hope
for mutual understanding :
--- one logical level is : 'personal idiosyncratic pragmatical
notation, the one favoured
because it is clearest for me IN ACTION'
---second logical level is : 'I want to be able to transmit that knot
to persons who each
have their "own personal clearest system" '.
Then it becomes evident that a formal common ground is to be used.
This common language *must* cover *all and every* personal particular
system.
This common ground is a computerisable one using only numbered
reference that even
a computer can use !
Let us suppose that I am to discuss the possible pharmaceutical drugs
treatment of a
particular diagnose with medical collegues from all over the
world.
We have no common language for the whole of us.
This will not be a conversation it will just be a bedlam!
How can we proceed without risking a communication break?
Simple enough:
--- specify the diagnose using the OMS coding : CIM-1O Revision 10 in
French or
ICD-10 in English as in International Classification of Diseases.
Each of us can have a language version he understands.
For exemple codes beginning by A00 to B99 pertain to infectious or
parasitic illness.
if I send J02.0X-001
then every one of us will KNOW FOR CERTAIN withou any
possible
ambiguity that it is Angine àStreptocoques or Streptococcal
sore
throat
Now we know what we have to treat while if each of us has given the
diagnose in
his own language it would have been impossible (name change from
country to country
for many illness!).
Still we are not yet out of the woods.
If each of us gives the commercial brand name used in his country
nothing will be possible.
So how do we proceed.
SIMPLE !
Use the chemical CID (Common International Denomination)
Beginning to see why personal, localized system are always
vastly inferior to a
generalized system?
Same thingit is here, the numbered notation (Schaake's) is a sort of
INTER-PERSONAL
(trans-personal) notation that has "general meaning".
It
is so general that even a computer can use it through economic command
lines directly
using digits and numbers while letters have to
be
"translated "into digits and numbers" ;-)