From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Sep 2 11:08:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: from sun30.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id LAA07826; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 11:08:14 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From nbodley@tiac.net Tue Sep 2 09:46:52 1997 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 08:44:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicholas Bodley To: SCHMIDTG@iccgcc.cle.ab.com Cc: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Parity (Was Re: Re[2]: Open and Closed Subgroups of G) In-Reply-To: <970901164633.20217b13@iccgcc.cle.ab.com> Message-Id: If I understand parity, Greg's examination would reveal whether someone had reassembled a Cube (or other mathematically-related puzzle) into a state that can't be solved. |* Nicholas Bodley *|* Electronic Technician {*} Autodidact & Polymath |* Waltham, Mass. *|* ----------------------------------------------- |* nbodley@tiac.net *|* Waltham is now in the new 781 area code. |* Amateur musician *|* 617 will be recognized until the end of 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------