Date: 30 Dec 1981 2017-EST
From: ELF at MIT-DMS (Eric L. Flanzbaum)
To: Cube-Lovers at MIT-MC
Subject: Query
Message-id: <[MIT-DMS].218800>


Cube Fans;

  Why on the package of the original Rubik's cube, does it say "Over 3
billion combonations ... just one solution" when in reality there are over
43 quintillion? Is it because the manufacturers of it thought nobody would
believe them?

				    Happy Cubing,
				the ELF