The Rubik's Cube dates to my childhood, when it was for leaving on a desk to be fiddled with — or, for a select few strange birds, for actually solving, sometimes very quickly. At that time, knowing ...

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The simple Rubik's Cube is a harder problem than most people realize. Using the currently provided best algorithm for solving the cube, for example, would take the computer you're reading this on now ...

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The Rubik's Cube, which is popular all over the world, is a three-dimensional puzzle that is so difficult that even beginners cannot match it. However, the world record for the fastest time to match ...

Using time donated by Google, a team of researchers has figured out the holy grail of Rubik's Cube mathematics. No matter how much you shuffle the cube it can be returned to its original state in just ...

In 2010, an international team of researchers proved that no matter how scrambled a Rubik’s cube got, it would require no more than 20 moves to solve it. Their proof, however, relied on the equivalent ...