From rp@xn.ll.mit.edu Mon Nov 12 12:09:56 1990 Return-Path: Received: from xn.ll.mit.edu by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA04551; Mon, 12 Nov 90 12:09:56 EST Message-Id: <9011121709.AA04551@life.ai.mit.edu> Received: by xn.ll.mit.edu id AA17468g; Mon, 12 Nov 90 12:07:55 EST Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 12:07:55 EST From: Richard Pavelle To: CUBE-LOVERS@life.ai.mit.edu In-Reply-To: RCC2%VAXB.YORK.AC.UK@mitvma.mit.edu's message of Fri, 9 Nov 90 20:13 GMT <9011121445.AA02330@life.ai.mit.edu> Subject: hello there Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 20:13 GMT From: RCC2%VAXB.YORK.AC.UK@mitvma.mit.edu Hello there, This is my first posting to the cube-lovers board, so I'm probably gonna ask a couple of really obvious questions: a) Does anyone know where I can get a copy of David Singmaster's book "Notes on Rubik's magic cube?" This was THE definitive book on the cube about 8 years ago, but I lost my copy....does anyone know if it's still in print?? ( Oh yeah, maybe I should mention that I'm in England...David Singmaster was a lecturer at one of the colleges in London I think - was this book EVER published in the states? ) b) ( This is a real obvious one... ) Does anyone have any tips or advice on solving the 4*4*4 cube that appeared a few years after the original 3*3*3 one. I got really close to getting it right a couple of years ago, but never quite made it. I have not looked at it for several years but if memory serves you need only one extra transformation which is not applicable to the 3^3. It is the single edge flip. I no longer recall it explicitly but it was kinda trivial to find.