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Comments on MetaFilter post Would you like to play a game?Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:11:59 -0800Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:11:59 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Would you like to play a game?
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<a href="http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/">Fun and games</a> with mathematics and mathematical puzzles (e.g. <a href="http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/heartbasket.htm">heart basket</a>, <a href="http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/rubikscube.htm">Rubik's Cube</a>, <a href="http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/magics.htm">Rubik's Magic</a>, <a href="http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/hypercube.htm">hypercubes</a>, and more) in both English and (with yet more content in) German.post:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69165Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:29:28 -0800Blazecock PileonchildreneducationpedagogyfunmathematicsmathpuzzlegermandeutschaufdeutschBy: Rumple
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Oh this is great, I know a five year old who will go apeshit for the paper slitting/folding ideas - not as hard as origami, and cool in a different way. Thanks.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69165-2017157Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:11:59 -0800RumpleBy: Wolfdog
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Solving Rubik's cube is interesting, but the mechanical challenge of making a <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=UrjmeYdVTlc">sturdy 7x7x7 cube</a> is a pretty good puzzle in its own right. Watching the guy solve it is kind of boring, but it's surprising it exists at all. Apparently there are <a href="http://www.v-cubes.com/products.php">still larger ones</a> to come, too.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69165-2017166Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:06:13 -0800WolfdogBy: Wolfdog
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My favorite Rubik-style puzzle actually wasn't one of Rubik's, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_tumbler_puzzle">the Nintendo Barrel</a> - perhaps just because I had to search a long time to find one. It's sitting here on my desk (solved) right now. In some ways, as an illustration of algebra ideas, it's clearer than the cube. There are a couple of simple moves you can do that have a cycle structure consisting of just two cycles of relatively prime length, meaning (by the Chinese Remainder Theorem - gosh! is there anything it <em>can't</em> do?) that actually you can push either cycle through as many steps as you want while leaving everything else on the puzzle fixed. Of course, you can find the same kind of thing on the cube, and the <a href="http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/">zillions</a> of other permutation puzzle, but it's splendidly easy to see the beads moving 'round in their 9- and 11-cycles on the barrel.
It's funny this site got linked today, because I was just looking at it myself yesterday. In the evening I wrote some Mathematica code to do calculations in the barrel group, and found two easy sequences I hadn't known about before: one really simple move that breaks up as two disjoint 8-cycles (which are laid out in a very simple way to visualize) and a number of different, short ways of achieving a 21-cycle.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69165-2017170Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:23:00 -0800WolfdogBy: jeblis
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I always thought Rubik's Magic was pretty cool, although it felt like it was going to break at any second. Rubiks clock was pretty easy as you could isolate the movement of individual clocks.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69165-2017323Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:07:37 -0800jeblisBy: Wolfdog
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Yes, Rubik's magic was, I think, the most ingenious design from Rubik beside the orginal cube itself - the design of the puzzle is more puzzlingly magical than the solution of it. The orginal one (three rings on a black background) was pretty sturdy, as I recall (I don't know what happened to mine). The bigger "Master" version was much less so.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69165-2017327Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:14:09 -0800WolfdogBy: wittgenstein
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This is a rare cool math site that I have not come across before. Thanks.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69165-2017621Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:04:49 -0800wittgenstein
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