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Group theory via Rubiks Cube

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An application of Maple's group package to answering various questions about the small Rubik's cube. Maple has a group theory package that can be used to generate and manipulate finite groups. Do you remember the pocket Rubik's cube? If you don't, it's a Rubik's cube with only two smaller cubes on each edge. We can represent the permutation group generated by the three cube twist on the coloured stickers as follows. Maple uses a permutation notation to represent groups. Each list of lists on the next command line is a permutation, with each sublist a cycle. The group is generated by these 3 permutations on 21 elements.

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Publish Date: June 18, 2001
Created In: Maple V
Language: English

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