One, two, sixteen, two hundred and thirty
Every planar chain of mobility one, up to ten links, counted by enumeration rather than quoted. The pins column is forced: a chain of 10 links has one degree of freedom only if it has exactly (3n − 4)/2 pins, which is why no odd link count appears. Pass the count is how many graphs satisfy Grübler's rule, are connected, are simple and give every link at least two pins. Are chains is how many of those survive the fourth condition, that no proper subchain is already a structure — and the gap between the two columns is the whole of this field's first argument: at ten links 1,878 graphs pass a rule that 230 of them deserve. Mechanisms is larger again, because a chain is not a mechanism until a link is held still, and how many different mechanisms that gives is a question about the chain's own symmetry.
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Where it is used
- The mechanism is the graph The chain before the lengths
- Same links, same pins, different machines The chain before the lengths
- What a count cannot see The chain before the lengths
- Right until the size nobody checked The chain before the lengths
- Deciding that two chains are one The chain before the lengths
- Which link to bolt down The chain before the lengths
- Eight ways to drive it, and one machine The chain before the lengths
- Two to the power of the dyads How many answers
- Four that a compass cannot reach The chain before the lengths
- The count was right and the name was wrong What can move
- The candidates a search throws away The chain before the lengths
- Choosing the chain before the lengths The problem backwards
- Eleven assortments and four that are empty The chain before the lengths
- In space there is one chain Out of the plane
- A catalogue is a search space The chain before the lengths
- Six things a chain is not Drawn wrongly
- The chain has no lengths The chain before the lengths
- An arm is a tree One path to the tool
- Where the shortest loops are As built
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