From ronnie@cisco.com Mon Jul 24 20:32:24 1995 Return-Path: Received: from nacho.cisco.com by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA10201; Mon, 24 Jul 95 20:32:24 EDT Received: from madhatter.cisco.com (ronnie-ss10.cisco.com [171.69.61.22]) by nacho.cisco.com (8.6.8+c/CISCO.SERVER.1.1) with ESMTP id RAA13280; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:32:13 -0700 Received: from cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by madhatter.cisco.com (8.6.8+c/CISCO.WS.1.1) with ESMTP id RAA04147; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:32:11 -0700 Message-Id: <199507250032.RAA04147@madhatter.cisco.com> To: Robert Munafo Cc: CUBE-LOVERS List , Nichael Cramer Subject: Re: Shallow-cut dodecahedron, and Re: Little keychain cubes In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jul 1995 19:11:50 EDT." Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:32:11 -0700 From: "Ronnie B. Kon" > Of course, a 25-cm cube would be fun to have, too. I imagine it would be > about a 25x25x25, which would have about 7.3 * 10^2328 combinations (even And the the box would probably tout its difficulty as having "more than 10 billion possibilities." :-( When they changed the lottery here in California from pick 6 of 48 numbers to pick 6 of 52 there was a steady stream of people on the evening news whining about how the lottery used to be hard to win, but now it's almost impossible. (I'll save you some trouble: it went from 1 in 12,271,512 to 1 in 20,358,520). Ronnie