From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Mar 16 20:02:41 1999 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 UAA04847 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:02:40 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Message-Id: <13546.9903160941@sun2.mcs.le.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:41:52 +0000 (GMT) From: "M. P. Baker" Reply-To: "M. P. Baker" Subject: Re: Stickers vs. tiles To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu David Singmaster wrote: > Recently, I've bought an example [of a tiled cube] at a > newsagent's in London for somewhere in the #1 to #2 range and it worked > moderately well (the previous two which I bought recently were virtually > immovable!). A large version of this (about 90mm or 3 1/2 in on an edge) was > on sale from a street vendor in December, but I don't know if he has any left > and I haven't seen it elsewhere. These cubes appear to be available from street vendors all over the UK. I've recently bought some in Leicester and Plymouth. They also sell them in a "gadget" shop at the end of my street, the sort of place that also sells blow-up aliens etc. The large ones are really nice for displaying patterns on, and came with a solution entertainingly translated from some Chinese type script :-) -------------------------------------------- Matthew Baker Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Leicester mpb2@mcs.le.ac.uk