From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Dec 24 11:35:18 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 LAA09905 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:35:17 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:07:26 -0500 From: michael reid Message-Id: <199812240007.TAA28326@adams.math.brown.edu> To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Optimal Cube Solver herbert writes > Is it necessary to use the table for the map from the "sliceedges" to > the 1680 "4 out of 8"-coordinate at all? no, i guess the "4 out of 8" coordinate is not really needed. good point. the tradeoff would be one extra table lookup versus having tables that are 455K larger. i don't know if there's a clear choice between these two options, but either is much better than the 6 megabytes i'm using now! mike