Message #729

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Contribute to the new puzzler by solving some counting problems :D
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:49:59 -0500

Hi all,

As a quality check, we would like to verify that all the sticker/cubie
counts produced by the puzzle builder are correct. I wasn’t going to go
into details, but it could be possible that some of these are off for the
even-sided puzzles. (If they are incorrect, don’t worry, it won’t be a
problem if you start working on any solutions - this potential issue
wouldn’t affect the log file output.) I was going to try to do this
verification on my own until I had the thought that some of you might
consider this a fun problem set.

So, I just uploaded a file to the
group<http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/4D_Cubing/files/MC4D%20Version%204/>which
has the counts output by the builder for every puzzle officially
supported by the beta. One thing about the counts in this file - the cubie
counts don’t include 0C pieces, so really I am looking for the total of all
1C + 2C + 3C + 4C pieces, as well as the total of all stickers. Feel free
to break it down how you like though. Maybe we can throw the results of all
these counts into a page on the wiki or something.

I’ve already verified the {4,3,3} hypercube counts myself using previous
calculations <http://www.gravitation3d.com/magiccube5d/anatomy.html> I’ve
done, but would love help on any of the others. Let me know if you’d like
to take some on, or just have at it!

Thanks,
Roice