From hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil Sun Jul 9 19:53:12 1995 Return-Path: Received: from Sun0.AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil ([192.26.18.51]) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA16871; Sun, 9 Jul 95 19:53:12 EDT Received: by Sun0.AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA03807; Sun, 9 Jul 95 19:53:10 EDT Date: Sun, 9 Jul 95 19:53:10 EDT From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey) Message-Id: <9507092353.AA03807@Sun0.AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil> To: "Jerry Bryan" , "Cube Lovers List" Subject: Re: 3x3x3 Cubes for Sale "Jerry Bryan" writes: > ... I couldn't see inside the box to verify this, the Face centers > seemed to be marked in such a way as to support the Supergroup. Just as well, you'd have been disappointed. As I wrote on 8 Jan 92, : While most people are content to make each face a solid color, some : cubes have markings that display whether the face centers are twisted : with respect to the rest of the cube. : [This has recently been done commercially in an spectacularly : braindamaged way, in a product known as ``Rubik's cube--the : fourth dimension'' or some such nonsense. The mfrs have marked : only four face centers, breaking symmetry while they fail to show : the surprising invariant of the Supergroup. What bagbiters!] > Rubik's note about the size of > the problem says it is 4^4 times bigger than the regular problem. And it could have been 4^(11/2). Dan Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil