From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Nov 24 16:09:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id QAA24075 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:09:26 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Subject: Re: The Cylinder Date: 24 Nov 1998 18:53:56 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-Id: <73evc4$cq0@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: roger.broadie@iclweb.com (Roger Broadie) writes: >I was given a cylinder here in England in 1981. I no longer have the >packaging, but I suspect it was Taiwanese, unless the Hungarians made >this variant. It was my first cube puzzle, and its shape was so >unappealing when disturbed that I put it on one side and got a genuine >cube to learn on - well, almost genuine: it came from a street trader >in Regent Street. There is a Taiwanese manufacture of the octagonal prism. I have part of one in my collection. (Got it when I was 10, and many cubies have disappeared since then.) I also have one of the "truncated cubes" mentioned earlier in this thread. I find the discussion on these two quite strange, since I always thought of these as cubes with weird cubies -- no more special than, say, that spherical "cube" they had a few years back. -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- StethoPHONE, not stethoSCOPE. What do doctors SEE in those things anyway?