From brett@math.toronto.edu Mon Oct 31 14:43:38 1994 Return-Path: Received: from math.toronto.edu (riemann.math.toronto.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA07328; Mon, 31 Oct 94 14:43:38 EST Message-Id: <9410311943.AA07328@life.ai.mit.edu> Subject: diameter To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu (cube) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 14:42:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Brett Stevens" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 564 what is the diameter of the group of 3X3X3 rubiks cube rotations? ie. the longest cyclic subgroup. what is the shortest path to solved? also I thought that red-orange blue-white yellow-green was standard. all the ideal manufacturede c ubes were this way. and the two orientations available with the above colouring are not only an inconvienience --Dr. Hana Bizek at ARgonne NAtional LAbs has used these two parities to do veery intersesting cube sculptures or designs as she calls them brett stevens brett@math.toronto.edu