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3 unusual facts about Prince Rupert's cube


Pieter Nieuwland

Before or around this time, Nieuwland had found the largest cube that can pass through a hole in a unit cube, a problem that had been posed 100 years earlier by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and given an inferior solution by English mathematician John Wallis.

Prince Rupert's cube

In geometry, Prince Rupert's cube (named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine) is the largest cube that can pass through a hole cut through a unit cube, i.e. through a cube whose sides have length 1.

Nieuwland died in 1794 (a year after taking a position as a professor at the University of Leiden) but his solution was published posthumously in 1816 by Nieuwland's mentor, Jean Henri van Swinden.


Atari Video Cube

The game utilizes a Rubik's Cube, but instead of rotating the sections of the cube, the player runs around, switching out the colors.

It received mostly positive scores from critics—said to be much easier than a real Rubik's Cube.

Boston Manor

With the commanding view that the house provides to the south and south west, one can almost imagine a little over a hundred years before that, when the then King Charles I could have been pacing from window to window with his loyal supporter Sir Edward Spencer, watching Prince Rupert’s troops engaging with the Parliamentarians during the Battle of Brentford.

Chattahoochee High School

Notable clubs are the quiz bowl team, which tied for 7th nationally at the National Academic Quiz Tournaments High School National Championship Tournament in 2009 and 8th in 2012, the Rubik's Cube Club, the Beta Club, and the chess club, which placed 3rd overall in the 2008 Georgia High School Team State Championship.

Christie Harris

She was led to investigate Northwest Coast cultures after moving to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, in 1958 and writing a series of CBC dramas on First Nations topics.

Chuck Hoberman

In addition to toys such as the Hoberman sphere, the largest of which resides at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, Hoberman created the BrainTwist, a hard plastic tetrahedron that folds, stellates, and becomes self-dual while having a component that rotates similarly to a Rubik's Cube.

David Singmaster

A self-described metagrobologist, he is most famous for his cube notation to the Rubik's Cube (i.e., what letters denote what face to turns on the Rubik's Cube) and his huge personal collection of mechanical puzzles and books of brain teasers.

Édouard Chambon

Édouard Chambon (Valence), is a French software engineer who formerly was world record holder for fastest single time on a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube with a time of 9.18 seconds and fastest average time of 11.48 seconds.

Eric Drysdale

His best-known song, "This Rubik's Cube is Driving Me Crazy" was performed on an episode of Comedy Centrals Premium Blend in 2000.

Eric Limeback

He is currently ranked 50th in the world for speedsolving the Rubik's Cube.

Everton Lock-Up

The Friends of Everton Park say references to Prince Rupert whose army camped in the area in 1644 during the English Civil War are erroneous.

First Battle of Middlewich

Sir Thomas obviously conducted himself satisfactorily in the campaign culminating in the Battle of Edgehill because an order from Prince Rupert in January 1643 refers to him as a colonel of a regiment of cuirassiers, and two days later on 19 January the King announced that he was sending Aston as a Major-General to Cheshire and Lancashire.

Gary Coons

Coons is a former math teacher, having worked in the Prince Rupert area for 25 years.

GMD GF6C

The line served the Quintette and Bull-Moose coal mines, and hauled coal from said mines to an interchange with CN, where diesel power took over to haul the coal to Prince Rupert where it was loaded onto deep-sea coal carrier ships.

H.E.R.B.I.E.

Said powers fluctuate due to Franklin's failure to solve a Rubik's Cube and a nearby TV show urging someone to 'grow up'.

Holden Thorp

In the summer of 1981, at age 17, while studying guitar at Boston's Berklee College of Music, Thorp won first place and a $500 prize in a northeast regional competition to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle.

Implicit graph

For instance, in searching for a solution to a puzzle such as Rubik's Cube, one may define an implicit graph in which each vertex represents one of the possible states of the cube, and each edge represents a move from one state to another.

Lawrence Leung

He is best known for his television series Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure based on his one man shows that tell stories around his obsessions such as breakdancing, ghosts, the Rubik's Cube and his family.

Lethal Inspection

In order to get to Hermes cubical, the group rotates right and left and up and down in the same fashion as a Rubik's Cube.

Macky Makisumi

He is best known for setting several world records for speedcubing, or quickly solving the Rubik's Cube.

Margaret Pomeranz

In 2009's Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure she and David Stratton review Lawrence Leung's attempt to set a world record for solving the Rubik's Cube whilst sky diving, as they sit on the landing site in their trademark armchairs.

MathPath

At MathPath he has taught such courses as problem solving, combinatorics, and solving the Rubik's Cube.

Chess, ping pong, pool, Rubik's Cube, Set and Magic: The gathering tournaments are played and organized during the students' free time.

Maureen Scott Harris

Maureen Scott Harris (born April 24, 1943 in Prince Rupert, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet.

Médard des Groseilliers

Reaching England, they were presented to King Charles and entered the circle of the Duke of York and Prince Rupert and General Monck.

Melford International Terminal

Maher Terminals is the designated operator of the Prince Rupert Container Terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia on behalf of the Prince Rupert Port Authority.

Metatron's Cube

The derivation of Metatron's cube from the tree of life, which the Talmud clearly states was excluded from human experience during the exile from Eden, has led some scholars (including Johann Andreas Eisenmenger) to portray Metatron as the means by which humanity was given knowledge of YHVH; presumably implying that study of Metatron's cube would be necessary to understanding the tree of life.

Monir Amerkhous

Monir Amerkhous is a French/Moroccan citizen mainly known for holding the Moroccan national record in Rubik's Cube.

Muscle memory

This plays a role in major speedcubing methods such as Fridrich for the 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube and EG for the 2×2×2 Pocket cube.

Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

A 4-door sedan was added to the Supreme lineup, with a new front end and a slight taillight lens restyle (resembling a touch-tone dial or Rubik's Cube - this lens style was used until 1984).

Pacific Command Water Transport Company, R.C.A.S.C.

Upon completion of the communication link, the Water Transport Company was assigned with re-supplying freight and personnel to remote RCAF radar stations on the west coast of British Columbia, basing ships at Coal Harbour, Port Alberni, and Prince Rupert.

Portland Inlet

Portland Inlet is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, approximately 55 kilometers north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Richard Fortey

He has also turned his pen to writing dinosaur poems for children and even a spoof book on the Rubik's Cube.

Robert Yeamans

Prince Rupert was to bring four thousand horse and two thousand foot to Durdham Down, and the royalists in Bristol, who were estimated at two thousand, were to seize the Frome-gate and admit Rupert's forces.

Sir Robert Slingsby, 1st Baronet

He and his brother Walter were with Prince Rupert when he surrendered Bristol, then went to Brussels to join their brother Arthur, who in 1658 was created first of the Slingsby baronets of Bifrons.

Stanford University Mathematics Camp

Also in 2007, Tyson Mao, one of the best cube solvers in the world, taught SUMaC students how to solve the Rubik's Cube.

The People's Cube

The article is an attempt to ridicule those who have criticized Israel for a "disproportionate" use of force during its 2006 military conflict with Hezbollah by implying they would have done the same in reaction to the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Polish Jews against Nazi oppression during World War II.

The Story of Billy

The pre-ordering of the album began on 10 August 2012 in Taiwan and included a limited edition Rubik's Cube with each pre-order purchase.

Toby Mao

Tobias "Toby" Mao (born December 21, 1988) is one of the world's top competitive Rubik's Cube solvers.

USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski

On 26 September 1946 the Zalinski was en route from Seattle to Whittier, Alaska, with a cargo of army supplies when she ran into the rocks of Pitt Island in the Grenville Channel, 55 miles south of Prince Rupert.

Viva Forever

Then they fly him to another place in front of a huge Rubik's Cube.

Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana

The theme song to Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana is a remix of the three shows' opening sequences and theme songs in a format of a Rubik's Cube twisting and turning to the three shows' theme songs; it starts with Wizards of Waverly Place, then The Suite Life on Deck, and followed by Hannah Montana.


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