Re: Rubik's tour.

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From: John Bailey
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:00

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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:06:18 GMT, "Androcles" <androcles@home.com>
wrote:

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>John Bailey <jmb184@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:39:24 GMT, "Androcles" <androcles@home.com>
>> wrote:
>> (snip)
>> >Suppose we have Rubik's cube, and suggest a tour such that all possible
>> >outcomes of the various configurations are presented. 
>> There may be other ways to interpret *tour* in the context of a Rubik
>> cube but this one is a lot of fun.
>> http://www.mud.ca/cube/cube.html
>John, that's quite a good simulator, but it didn't work in quite the way I
>expected. 
> When I use
>the keyboard, only the middle slice turns. What am I doing wrong?
CAPITALS select the outer slices, lower case the inner slices.
The instructions also might help with the other problems you
mentioned.  (See, I did not say: RTFM)
>While I applaud the programmer for his effort, I find this simulator rather
>difficult to create a tour.
He undoubtably did not intend it for exploring group theory or
hamiltonian tours.

John

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From: jmb184@frontiernet.net (John Bailey)
Subject: Re: Rubik's tour.
Date: 2000/01/24
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