MATH 88Q. The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube—Stanford Introductory
Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Group theory through topics that can be illustrated with the Rubik’s cube: subgroups, homomorphisms and quotient groups, the symmetric and alternating groups, conjugation, commutators, and Sylow subgroups.
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First of all, Brian sent me this hilarious article from the Onion. After a quick check to make sure it wasn't already on his blog, I'm posting the link below. This is one of my all-time favorites.
AL JIZAH, EGYPT—A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made a stunning discovery Monday, unearthing several intact specimens of "skeleton people"—skinless, organless humans who populated the Nile delta region an estimated 6,000 years ago.
Secondly, I found out I made a grievous error in my last blog entry. I left out the most pivotal set of pictures, which has been reproduced below for your viewing pleasure.
This event simultaneously answered both vital questions: "Is my printer fixed yet?" and--more importantly--"Can my printer coherently reproduce a digital image onto a sheet of standard white letter paper while disassembled?"
Printing with only the bare necessities was so fun to watch that I decided another test was in order. If you look very closely you can see the partially printed image, which came out of the print heads much higher up the black cartridge holder than I expected.
Two pictures of Darth Vader purifying water have successfully been printed, signalling great success for my foolhardy endeavor.
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Printing with only the bare necessities was so fun to watch that I decided another test was in order. If you look very closely you can see the partially printed image, which came out of the print heads much higher up the black cartridge holder than I expected.
