Hello everyone! First of all, I'd like to thank Melinda for inviting me to this mailing list! My name is Chris Locke, and I recently solved the 3^4, 4^4, and...
Hello again, Well, in keeping with my tradition of solving one of these puzzles during my exam time I've solved the Magic 120 Cell. I have to say it wasn't as ...
Hi Noel, Wow, amazing! This first solution happened much sooner than I guessed (which was that this puzzle would resist for at least a year). Great job, and...
Yes, and a huge congratulation from me too! I'm also a little surprised this happened this quickly. That said, I'm not surprised that it was by you, Noel....
Hello All, Thank you for the congratulations! To answer your question Melinda, yes it was a lot of fun and I might do it again sometime if I think of a faster ...
One tiny correction: I think I invented the piece finding design though it was Roice who implemented it. I'm a little torn about supporting larger cubes in...
Well, this is my third attempt to get this post through. I wrote yahoo last night and they responded that they recently upgraded their spam filters and my...
Roice, Bummer about the spam filtering problem. You're right of course that they should just whitelist all members. I definitely boot any member who spams our...
A compression version anyway (1 of every 10 actual moves are shown at 30 fps). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bkU3nC1Jw&fmt=6 I recommend watching in high...
What a lovely holiday present, Roice! The frame skipping works surprisingly well. I hope you get a lot of appreciative comments. You might want to add some...
Oops! Apologies to all for the private message mistakenly sent widely! When someone at my current company, Linden Lab does something like that we put Shreak...
Hello everyone, First of all I would like to be another person to congratulate Noel on solving Magic120Cell! It must have taken a lot of patience and...
I have a particularly fun announcement to make tonight which is that I have finally solved the 4D cube. It might surprise many of you that I had never before...
... Congratulations! Of course, whether you had ever solved it or not, we are all forever in debt for your significant role in making this possible. :-) --Jay...
Wonderful news Melinda. Many congratulations, and I trust you will enjoy your bragging rights to the full :) Also, to echo Jay, thank-you for everything you...
Hi everyone, In yet another attempt to redefine the spirit of taking things too far, I have found the formula for the number of reachable configurations of an...
Well, it was a lengthy journey, but after 24 days (avg 6 hrs/day) and 1.9 million twists, the 7^5 is the only peak left unclaimed. After scaling the 6^5, I'm...
Congratulations!! 1.9 million twists - incredible! Also, great to hear about your solution to the m^n puzzle; I'm definitely interested in hearing more about...
I think the lack of experienced parity problems is likely due to the solution method (corners-in instead of centers-out). In Noel's writeup about higher...
... that ... occasionally ... even on a ... I would agree that a corners in approach avoids parity problems. It's the solution that I use when I solve my 4^3....
I was hoping mentioning parity would get a discussion started on this, as parity was my biggest hang-up on announcing my m^n solution. A traditional definition...
Thanks for your definition of parity and detailed explanation! Everything you said was right on. Based on your permutation-based definition of parity, I ...
First my congratulation goes to Melinda! It's great finally see you in Hall of Fame! I was really surprise how fast someone will join Noel in Hall of Insanity...
Hi guys, Thank you Levi. This deepened my understanding, especially the discussion of what you termed "double odd", as well as the "why" of single corner...
Let me be the latest person to congratulate you on your stupendous new accomplishment! Long ago I predicted that it would be a very long time, if ever, until...
Roice, you bring up a very good point. I wasn't sure there were positions on a 4^d that, using a reduction method, would generate impossible positions on a 3^d...
Thanks Melinda! I consider your congrats and a shout-out on the MC4D main page an honor. To you and anyone else in the hall of fame, you're 1 out of 100^4! ...
I dug up old cd backups I had and found my log files from April 2000! I save solutions along the way out of paranoia, and luckily I had files at the problem...
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