From cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Fri May 9 15:21:07 1997 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Received: from oolong.camellia.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oolong.camellia.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA18614; Fri, 9 May 1997 15:21:07 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 17:16:09 BST From: David Singmaster Computing & Maths South Bank Univ To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Message-ID: <009B4025.26B4C360.894@vax.sbu.ac.uk> Subject: Underwater cube solving I've been away from my email for some time and have just seen the message of 3 Apr 1997 from Pete Reitan via Karen Angelli. In England, we also had some underwater cube solving. This is probably in my Cubic Circular somewhere, but I can't find it. A lecturer in mathematics at the open University, Pete Strain, got interested in the Cube when I brought early examples to the Open University in early 1979. He got married about that time and took on the name Strain-Clark, and his wife was also interested. They performed underwater for Anglia Television, probably in 1980. This is a regional television and I've never seen the program. They had similar problems to Pete - in particular, her face mask leaked and she couldn't see for the last 15 seconds and had to solve the cube by memory! I've looked through my Cubic Circular again and can't find that I ever included the above. Some day I may assemble another issue, mostly of anecdotes. DAVID SINGMASTER, Professor of Mathematics and Metagrobologist School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics Southbank University, London, SE1 0AA, UK. Tel: 0171-815 7411; fax: 0171-815 7499; email: zingmast or David.Singmaster @sbu.ac.uk