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19 Nov 2024 20:32:01 EST (-0500)
  Re: 720 cube-walks 61KBbu  
From: Philippe Debar
Date: 11 Nov 2001 17:09:10
Message: <3beef706@news.povray.org>
"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
news:3BEB5A0F.6F34925B@faricy.net...
> Unusual.  Cool.

;-)

> I was going to ask if you are allowed to go through the center of the
> cube to an opposite corner, but I should realize that 720 is 6!, so
> yes.  :)
>
> Now find the number such that a path can't intersect itself. ;)

I count 486 of them. (Actually my pov-code counts them, I just repeat
dumbly... Humans don't do mistake, they merely do whatever the computers
tell them.)

I currently believe that there are 81 different paths, the others are just
rotations/symetries of these.


Povingly,

Philippe


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