Re: cube the movie

From: Saint Cad (saintcad_at_emailblackhole.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:51:02 GMT

"mark griffith" <contact@otherlanguages.org> wrote in message
news:200407290914.i6T9EuF19844@proapp.mathforum.org...
> On 28 Jul 2004, Richard Henry wrote:
> >
> >"mark griffith" <contact@otherlanguages.org> wrote in message
>
> >>
> >> I was dragged along to see 'Cube' too.
> >>
> >> I also recall blinking at some plot detail to do with the numbers on
the
> >little metal plates at each trapdoor: doesn't the clever girl talk about
> >prime numbers at one point and then decide later she had mistaken prime
> >numbers for squares of prime numbers? Something like that.

I loved the fact that although she easily recognized 3 digit prime numbers,
she didn't know some basic divisibility rules e.g. 3 and 5.

But remember, not only were prime powers significant, the numbers also
represented elements of the permutations group. A neat trick!

BTW: Hypercube was a lot better

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