A package arrived from Mr. Spock. The enclosed letter read as follows:
"Dear Tito, We have now completed our investigation of the supermassive black hole SDSS J0749+2255 and are currently on a mission to predict the explosion of 'Eta Carinae' in the constellation Carina. When this luminous blue variable explodes, it will emit a massive amount of gamma rays, which is expected to cause major damage to Earth.
Wow! There are some pretty dangerous planets in space…
"Then we encountered a Klingon spaceship that had also come to investigate the same planet. The situation was about to explode, but Captain Kirk said to Gowron, 'Hey Gowron, why don't we have a match of your Kube that we were talking about the other day? Whoever wins stays, and whoever loses goes?' They accepted the suggestion, and the match began. In the end, we won 3-2."
Phew, that was good.
"After the match, he asked me, 'What about Kube2, which we invented before you? Were you able to solve it?' I replied, 'I found a solution to that cube. First, permute each corner with face rotation, then align each edge with the slide function and you're done. It was just a trick, not a big deal.'"
"Gowron then said, 'Oh, so you guys figured it out too. We figured it out right away, and the engineers at the National Kube Manufacturing Company quickly got to work developing a new cube. Today we're proud to announce the Kube3. I'll send you a few.' He transported a few Kube3, so I enclosed one for you. We're currently working on a solution for this Kube3."
The Kube3 that Mr. Spock sent me looked like this:
The new Kube3 looks the same as the previous Kube2, but it has a few additional features.
1. You can remove 3 consecutive pieces with a skewer and swap them with the 3 pieces on either side.
2. Added a non-parity detection function (the cube flashes when non-parity occurs due to the swap in 1 above).
Therefore, in addition to the slide and rotation functions, Kube3 now has the ability to swap 3 consecutive pieces.
At the end, it said, "Good luck!"
Thank you, Mr. Spock.
"Dear Tito, We have now completed our investigation of the supermassive black hole SDSS J0749+2255 and are currently on a mission to predict the explosion of 'Eta Carinae' in the constellation Carina. When this luminous blue variable explodes, it will emit a massive amount of gamma rays, which is expected to cause major damage to Earth.
Wow! There are some pretty dangerous planets in space…
"Then we encountered a Klingon spaceship that had also come to investigate the same planet. The situation was about to explode, but Captain Kirk said to Gowron, 'Hey Gowron, why don't we have a match of your Kube that we were talking about the other day? Whoever wins stays, and whoever loses goes?' They accepted the suggestion, and the match began. In the end, we won 3-2."
Phew, that was good.
"After the match, he asked me, 'What about Kube2, which we invented before you? Were you able to solve it?' I replied, 'I found a solution to that cube. First, permute each corner with face rotation, then align each edge with the slide function and you're done. It was just a trick, not a big deal.'"
"Gowron then said, 'Oh, so you guys figured it out too. We figured it out right away, and the engineers at the National Kube Manufacturing Company quickly got to work developing a new cube. Today we're proud to announce the Kube3. I'll send you a few.' He transported a few Kube3, so I enclosed one for you. We're currently working on a solution for this Kube3."
The Kube3 that Mr. Spock sent me looked like this:
The new Kube3 looks the same as the previous Kube2, but it has a few additional features.
1. You can remove 3 consecutive pieces with a skewer and swap them with the 3 pieces on either side.
2. Added a non-parity detection function (the cube flashes when non-parity occurs due to the swap in 1 above).
Therefore, in addition to the slide and rotation functions, Kube3 now has the ability to swap 3 consecutive pieces.
At the end, it said, "Good luck!"
Thank you, Mr. Spock.
