From cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Thu Jun 19 12:32:15 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 MAA06816; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:32:15 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Message-ID: From: "joyner.david" To: "'Josh D Weaver'" Cc: "'cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu'" Subject: RE: Square One Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:06:58 -0400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >---------- >From: Josh D Weaver[SMTP:shaggy34@juno.com] >Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 4:05 PM >To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu >Subject: Square One > >Does anyone know how to solve one of those "Square One" puzzles? There's a paper on my web page which indirectly explains how. (It's actually a math paper written with a student of mine explaining the group theory of the puzzle.) What's useful are some of the moves which we give. If you can't print it out (It's a dvi file) I'll mail it to you if you give me your postal address. http://www.nadn.navy.mil/MathDept/wdj/rubik.html The idea, if I remember, is 1. get into a square form, 2. use the special moves we give (moves which permute 3 pieces only and leave the others alone, for example) to solve the puzzle as one solves the Rubik's cube. - David Joyner > >Josh > >