TV last night - Cube and Mad Max questions

[Ridcully]

Channel hopping last night so missed the bit in the Cube which gave away which rooms were trapped. I know the first idea was only partially right but what was the whole solution for the traps. I know how they got out.

In Mad Max 2 which of the girls was played by Virginia Hey (Zhaan from Farscape) was it the one with the compound bow and major shoulder pads ?

[carryonline]

I finally caught the whole of Cube after catching various bits of it on previous surfing excursions:

They went through various iterations of the "prime number" means of identifying trapped rooms after Quentin jumped into a prime room and narrowly avoided becoming sushi. It turns out the safe rooms are those where the factor of the room numbers is prime, IIRC. The autistic chap was, you guessed it, a genius at working out factors.

All in all, an excellent film - so much so that I picked it up today in HMV's BOGOF sale. :D

[Sputnik]

More suited to the DVD and Movie Forum :)

Moving...

Hmm must watch Cube again some time, top film http://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Ridcully]

Thanks for the response. Have to dig out the old maths books to find out what one of those answer thingies is. Ok on prime numbers but can't rember those.

[Xenole]

Someone should have watched the rest of the film as:

The prime numbers weren't a key to which rooms were safe and which weren't - they were a cartesian co-ordinate system identifying each room's location within the cube - Nicole De Boer found that although most of the prime numbers were OK, at least one room was booby trapped when it should have been safe, so that theory was found to be wrong

[carryonline]

Ooh, sarcasm

Anyway, I thought that revelation come after they had identified which numbers indicate the rooms with traps?

As I said:
The trapped rooms had numbers whose factors were prime - this came after the revelation that they were simply prime numbers.

Which led to me thinking:
That the coordinate numbers revelation was supplemental to identifying which rooms were trapped.

Although having said that my attention did wander as the baby woke up about 15 minutes before the end.

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by Ridcully
In Mad Max 2 which of the girls was played by Virginia Hey (Zhaan from Farscape) was it the one with the compound bow and major shoulder pads ?

yes