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Checking multiplex patterns

When you check multiplex patterns there should be two numbers under any multiplex throws and as before one number under every other throw. The pattern will be a valid juggling pattern if one of the two numbers under each multiplex throw is a 2 or a 1. An example should help.

To check that [43]23 is a valid pattern, first write 4 under the throw four beats after the 4.
         [43]23
             4
Note that the 3 within the square brackets is on the same beat as the 4, so the 2 is one beat later, the other 3 is two beats later, there is another multiplex throw three beats later, so the 2 is four beats later.
Now write 3 under the throw three beats after the multiplexed 3.
          [43]23
            3 4
Now write 2 under the throw two beats after the 2.
          [43]23
            3 4
            2
Now write 3 under the throw three beats after the final 3.
         [43]23
            3 43
            2
There are two numbers under the multiplex throw, one of which is a 2 and there is one number under every other throw in the pattern, so [43]23 is a valid pattern.

Reading the checking numbers in reverse in multiplex patterns would lead to patterns where you have to catch two balls at once.

 

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