From: "C. Kuethe" <ckuethe@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:02:34 -0800 (PST)
To: Scottauge@aol.com
Subject: Re: RSA over Rubiks Cube
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 Scottauge@aol.com wrote:

 
> This problably wouldn't be to cool a thing to do.  A fella named Douglas
> Hopstader(?) wrote a book called Meta-Mathematics (same guy who wrote The
> Golden Knot).  In this book he developed (or showed, forget who should get
> credit) an algorithm to solve Rubiks cube from any beginning state.

His name is Douglas Hofstader and the book is called "metamagical themas". He
also wrote "Godel, Escher, Bach".

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Chris Kuethe <ckuethe@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> LPGV Electronics and Controls
        <c100305@wolfcreek.cs.ualberta.ca> http://www.ualberta.ca/~ckuethe/
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