I love stories with happy endings! :) Jasmine http://www.geocities.com/jasmine_ellen ... closet. It had been lying there, without food, drink, silicone spray ...
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Tyson Mao
psycho_tycho
Sep 27, 2004 7:53 am
That's a brilliant idea. I was thinking about putting up posters but no one pay attention... but I think I could put up posters, bring awareness about my...
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Michael Atkinson
unipsycho6
Sep 27, 2004 5:25 pm
Ahh, don't you love it when that happens? One time I was cubing with an old non-Rubiks brand Cube, and it exploded into a million pieces. I found most of them,...
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Prabhat
wise_sheep
Sep 27, 2004 11:03 pm
You know what would really work? Offer a reward! "$5 for a lost, crappy Rubik's cube. Pops a piece once every 8 solves." Of course, they won't know that its a...
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jasmine_ellen
Sep 28, 2004 4:47 am
I've created a PDF version of my beginner solution page. There's a link to it at the top of the HTML page: ...
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jasmine_ellen
Sep 28, 2004 4:59 am
Your method of cutting out the stickers is way more advanced than mine. I just use a regular pair of scissors. Here's what I do: 1. Cut a length of tape that's...
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jasmine_ellen
Sep 28, 2004 5:04 am
Ooops. Typo. Step 4 should have said "Repeat steps 1-3..." (I'm sure you could all guess that though!!) Jasmine ... of ... the ... to ... the ... yesterday ......
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Milamber98
Sep 28, 2004 7:01 am
Goto: http://tinyurl.com/ You enter a long one, it gives you a tiny one and anyone who types in the tiny one will get redirected to the long one. Very...
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portoseb
Sep 28, 2004 7:09 pm
Lucky you! I too lost a corner piece in May this year (GYO). It happenned on our one-day school trip. I was cubing in the coach for the others to see me and...
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Prabhat
wise_sheep
Sep 28, 2004 9:33 pm
"...Just busted out my ancient 1970s cube and did it in 2:03..." Hmm...they had cubes in the 70s? Lol I really wanna see how that guy mathematically proved it...
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makeshiftaudio
Sep 29, 2004 5:26 am
I recieved the stickers today when I got home (after working 17 hours!). They look fantastic. The look is very similar to these ...
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Stefan Pochmann
stefan_pochmann
Sep 29, 2004 11:26 am
Also, why do these braindead liars keep saying they "accidently solved it by just turning it randomly for a few hours" ?!? I could imagine two explanations: 1....
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pathfinder_netstorm
pathfinder_n...
Sep 29, 2004 1:27 pm
Thats awesome. ... more...
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Per Kristen Fredlund
aspiring_to_...
Sep 29, 2004 1:47 pm
Hey! Just let those liars live in the dark ;-) Not very productive to be upset by that i think. I wonder, do u always solve by luck? ... LOL ... :-P Happy...
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Richard Patterson
richy_jr_2000
Sep 29, 2004 2:25 pm
With over 43 quintillion different combinations, does anyone know the actual odds of solving it by accident? Say, 1000 random turns...can that be figured out? ...
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cmhardw
Sep 29, 2004 3:07 pm
The chance that the next turn produces the solved state is 1/43252003274489856000 so the chance that in 1000 turns you see the solved state at least once...
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cmhardw
Sep 29, 2004 3:23 pm
Sorry for the multiple posts but I found this interesting too, If you did 43252003274489856000 random turns on a cube, assuming you start from a scrambled...
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Gustav Fredell
gufr5747
Sep 29, 2004 3:33 pm
Well thats no different from other repeated probabilities if n is sufficiently high (coin flipping is no good ;). There will still be an expected value of...
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Stefan Pochmann
stefan_pochmann
Sep 29, 2004 4:15 pm
... I had some fun learning how to use Java's BigDecimal class, here's the result (number of turns vs. probability to accidentally solve). I used 1000 digits...
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pathfinder_netstorm
pathfinder_n...
Sep 30, 2004 2:34 am
... solved...
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pathfinder_netstorm
pathfinder_n...
Sep 30, 2004 2:35 am
I think you should think that most people can solve at least 1 side. the rest could be random. ... the ... used ... And ... second, ... truely ... bar )));...
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jasmine_ellen
Sep 30, 2004 4:24 am
I was just poking around the 'cube facts' page on the rubiks.com site. I came across the following: "The least number of moves required in unscrambling the...
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h4m573r1
Sep 30, 2004 4:44 am
Hey everyone- Just curious, but how many of us here actually use internet blogs and stuff? I know some people who use Xanga, and Jasmine uses Blogspot. It's...
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jasmine_ellen
Sep 30, 2004 5:00 am
Hey Sunil, where did you get the Square-1s that appear on your blogpage. My Square-1 is pretty crappy and I think your ones look like the type I'm after. Do...
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h4m573r1
Sep 30, 2004 5:37 am
Hi Jasmine- I bought them from Ton at US Nationals. He sells them on his website, but apparently he isn't selling any puzzles right now... I'm sure you can...
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cmhardw
Sep 30, 2004 6:44 am
Here's one more thing I was thinking about based on this last post. Assuming someone can work their way to finishing the F2L and then perform random...
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nascarjon2001
Sep 30, 2004 3:08 pm
I just built two of the DIY kits and they are both excellent cubes. The only thing I do not like about them is the new center caps. Hopefully they'll do...
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Michiel van der Blonk
yasmaramichiel
Sep 30, 2004 9:37 pm
I just created a xanga at http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx? user=michielvanderblonk I also have a dutch blog at http://vanderblonk.tk and a home page at ...
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Stefan Pochmann
stefan_pochmann
Oct 1, 2004 12:27 am
Yeah I know, that's what I meant in my original posting that started this thread. But people claim they just randomly twisted the cube. And that's just -...
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Stefan Pochmann
stefan_pochmann
Oct 1, 2004 12:39 am
Hi Jasmine, you could try to get some here: http://hlavolamy.gumruch.cz/europe.php (I found this page a while ago and I believe Ton also linked to it). You...
