Timeline for Hard Cube Puzzle
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| Jan 19, 2011 at 22:27 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | See also mathoverflow.net/questions/9754/… . | |
| Jan 19, 2011 at 22:11 | comment | added | ndkrempel | The update has a tiny bit more group theory in: the Orbit-Stabilizer Theorem. | |
| Jan 19, 2011 at 22:10 | vote | accept | user12265 | ||
| Jan 19, 2011 at 22:01 | history | edited | ndkrempel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 19, 2011 at 21:20 | comment | added | ndkrempel | Note that the 29 here is $|S_4| + 5$, where $S_4$ is the orientation-preserving symmetry group of a cube. In the card trick, the corresponding largest $n$ is 124, which is of course $|S_5| + 4$, where $S_5$ is the symmetry group of 5 labelled cards. So one can answer these questions as quickly as one can work out the order of the relevant symmetry group :) | |
| Jan 19, 2011 at 21:18 | comment | added | user12265 | Wow, that was unexpected! Strategy part still stands. | |
| Jan 19, 2011 at 21:03 | history | answered | ndkrempel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |