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40. Dr Hart arranges the 27 lines, cubically, thus:
A
B x c\
a x
b x
Ci
«1
A
7i
a 2
B 2 c 2
a. 2
h
c 2
a 2
A
72
A 3
B 3 c 3
Cl 3
b 3
C 3
«3
A
7s
where letters of the same alphabet denote lines in the same plane, if only the letters
are the same or the suffixes the same; thus A l} A.,, A 3 lie in a plane A X A 2 A 3 ;
A x , B 1} C x lie in a plane A 1 B 1 C\. Letters of different alphabets denote lines which meet
according to the Table
where the letter in the centre of the square denotes a line lying in the same plane
with the lines denoted by the letters of each vertical pair in the same square. Thus
A x lies in the planes A x q^cl x , A x b 2 ^ 2 , A x c 3 ^ 3 (and in the before-mentioned two planes
A X A,A 3 , A X B X C X ).
41. I find that one way in which this may be identified with the double-sixer
notation is to represent the above arrangement by
1,
2',
12
3',
4,
34
13,
24,
56
14,
25,
36
2,
6',
26
A
16,
6
4',
5,
45
23,
46,
15
3,
35,
5'
and then the identification may apparently be effected in (720 x 36=) 25920 ways, viz.
we may first in any way permute the r, s'? o'* by this means not altering
the double-sixer r \ 3' i' 5' 6'. and then upon the arrangements so obtained make any of
the substitutions which permute inter se the 36 double-sixers.
42. The equations of the 45 planes are obtained in my paper last referred to,
viz. taking the equation of the surface to be
W (1, 1, 1, 1, mn + , nl + , Ini + , l 4- -j, 7n-{- — , n + Y, Z, TL) 2 + kXZY = 0,
Im
l
_ p 2 -/3 2
2(p-a)’
a = Imn +
Imn ’
/3 = Imn —
1
Imn ’
where