Date: 7 DEC 1980 0108-EST From: MJA at MIT-MC (Michael J. Aramini) Subject: maximally distant state To: CUBE-LOVERS at MIT-MC well it is possible that to maximally distant states are half twist apart also if you count half twists as one twist (i dont, but its still worth thinking about) does that change the set of maximally distant states? also it is possible that there exists states for which all directions lead closer to home (and twist put the cube in a state closer to home) but the state is not necessarily maximally distant (to use a continous analogy, think of think of a hill in a funtion of two variables, that is not necessarily the maximum value of the function)