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From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
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To: Cube-Lovers@life.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Oops... Re: Hint wanted for 4x4x4
Cc: Dik.Winter@cwi.nl, ronnie@cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon)

I wrote:

? The key is that commutators are always odd permutations.  So do the
? move that is an odd permutation of the edges, then use commutators.

But I *Meant*:

! The key observation is that commutators are always even
! permutations.  So you to perform an odd permutation on edge, you
! should do the move that is an odd permutation of the edges, then use
! commutators.

Dan