So I'm beginning work on a computer solver that will be targeted at the megaminx (though it will be general-purpose). I've been away from speedcubing for quite some time- I was last really active in 2011. It seems ksolve has been inactive for ~2 years according to the Github repo...
I figure 4 years away from this site is long enough to warrant another intro, heh.
Bunch of you know me, but I'm a bit different now...I'm now Ms. Cameron. Part of my time away was focusing on myself and transitioning as a trans woman. I did some university work in my time away in applied...
Hey all, I've been away from cubing a long while. Life got busy and I dropped a lot of my hobbies and habits. I'm looking to get back into speedcubing. I'm wondering what developments have there been in the last 4 years or so? Obviously the WRs are wicked fast now, are people still doing...
So, there's not much information about the actual solving of a Gigaminx out there. Clearly, vanilla reduction works. But it seemed slow to me, so I took a look at Balint Bodor's UWR video.
It seems that he solves half of the centres, then using the area of unsolved centres, pairs edges and...
So, I was messing around last night and ended up scrambling a cube normally and solved it only using T and U permutations, without setup moves. Intuition tells me that with T and U permutations only, any position of the cube can be reached.
My question is, how would I go about proving this...
In reference to the announcement about the KOs...
I don't know if there's any better way to do this but I feel like it's very easy to miss. Especially when the title isn't orange because it is unread. It doesn't appear where any other threads. I just never noticed it. It seems to blend in with...
Let me first say that I do NOT want code or any existing solvers.
For a project in my intro to computer science class, I decided to write a solver for the floppy cube in Python. It's simple, as expected, but I don't feel like it's very elegant. I'm not sure how to go about actually searching...
Anyone have any suggestions as to how to go about learning to use Mathematica? I'll be needing it for several projects next semester in Calculus III. Any books I might be able to find at a library or any free online resources? Thanks in advance.
I've been working in Python and C++ in my computer science class and I've been looking at learning another language just for kicks. What are the advantages of Perl over either of these languages? Will it be useful to me? (I'm an applied mathematics major, CS minor)
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I've found/developed/otherwise stumbled upon a collection of CO algorithms for Megaminx that preserve the EP. I have algorithms for all of the 2 and 3 incorrect corner cases. I was wondering if anyone knew of any algorithms for 4 or 5 incorrect corners?
(Please don't say I can just I...
I read Dan Hayes' post on the speedsolving yahoo group (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/message/41005) a while ago, and now I have the programming ability to implement some of the ideas.
So, I threw together a quick scrambler that generates 125 move scrambles (not...
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So, as I'm sure many of you here are also, I am a fan of xkcd. However, I've never read all of them. When I get interested and the time, I just click 'random' and read that strip.
A probability problem came to mind while I was doing this- right now, there are 650 comics. If I were to...
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I'm rather stuck here. I don't know if it's something silly I'm missing or what. For my maths class one of the problems is to find the antiderivative of 1/(e^2y-1)^(1/2) with respect to y. I'm very stuck. I punched it into WolframAlpha and that really wasn't much help. It gave me a...
So... I've been working on a problem given to me by my maths teacher. I feel like I'm on the right track, I'm just missing a crucial part.
So, there's a parabola y=x^2 and a circle of radius 1 centered on a point (0,b)
There are two points where the parabola and the circle lie tangent.
Find b...
Any suggestions on what to improve on would be great, specifically anything with my fingertricks - any bad habits I should be cutting out right now? I've just really started so I want to nip any bad habits in the bud.
So...I know how to correct parity on square-1, that's not what this thread's about...
How exactly does this occur, where two pieces are swapped? I know, for example, that on 4x4 parity occurs when a scramble has an odd/even number of slice turns, and when solving, one reduces it with an...
So, since I just put stickers on my DIY, I had washed all the gunk off from the old stickers and just washed all the cubies with detergent to clean everything out. On a whim, I took an average of 25 of my T-perm and got 2.33s. Then, I lubed the cube, worked it in fully, and did another average...
I didn't think this was really appropriate for speedcubing or beginners forum, so its here.
So, my favorite event is Megaminx. Averages of 5 and 12 are good representations of ability, yes... but is there a way I can see a "rolling mean of 3" during my sessions (so I could see how well I'd do...
So, I'm having issues with my DIY's stickers, they're the PVC ones that come with Puzzlepros' DIYs. They peel.
Obviously, the simple solution is to go buy tiles from cubesmith, since they are my favorite.
However, I have no money.
Buying anything is out of the option, I have not one cent.
Is...
Edit: Oops. Sorry mods >.< I don't know how but this got posted in the wrong forum. Could you move it to off topic?
This might belong in the blindsolving forum because that's where its discussed most, but its a general topic... So, I was thinking about this, and I know that on 3x3 corners and...