From hazard@niksula.hut.fi Mon Oct 23 14:42:32 1995 Return-Path: Received: from nukkekoti.cs.hut.fi by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA20954; Mon, 23 Oct 95 14:42:32 EDT Received: from ummagumma.tky.hut.fi (hazard@ummagumma.tky.hut.fi [130.233.33.120]) by nukkekoti.cs.hut.fi (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA28308 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 20:42:30 +0200 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 20:42:30 +0200 Message-Id: <199510231842.UAA28308@nukkekoti.cs.hut.fi> X-Sender: hazard@pop.niksula.cs.hut.fi X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: Mikko Haapanen Subject: pull out the corner? Hello! I have a question (yes, again). This subject may be discussed here before, but i don't understand set theory or other high math, so i ask: If i had a 3x3x3 cube and i pull out a corner piece. I turn it and push back. Now the cube cannot be solved. I think the cube is now 'on the other orbit'. If i pull now an edge piece and flip it, the cube is again on some other orbit. Only one of those orbits are legal. How many different illegal orbits there are? -----Mikko Haapanen------hazard@niksula.hut.fi------ Another toy will help destroy The elder race of man Forget about your silly whim It doesn't fit the plan ----------------------------------------------------