what is the diameter of the group of 3X3X3 rubiks cube rotations?
ie. the longest cyclic subgroup. what is the shortest path
to solved?also I thought that red-orange blue-white yellow-green
was standard. all the ideal manufacturede c ubes were this way.and the two orientations available with the above colouring
are not only an inconvienience --Dr. Hana Bizek at
ARgonne NAtional LAbs has used these two parities to do
veery intersesting cube sculptures or designs as she calls
thembrett stevens
brett@math.toronto.edu