Thursday, September 2, 2010

Simplest Solution to Rubik’s Cube

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Now you can impress your friends by solving the rubik's cube in 20 moves.click on the link at the end of the article to get to know the steps.
ARTICLE-
No matter how mixed-up it is, the Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves or fewer, say a team of researchers who used computer time donated by Google to run complex algorithms to prove it.


Some facts about rubics cube

  • The Rubik’s Cube, a 3-D puzzle, was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian sculptor and professor Erno Rubik. Rubik licensed it to be sold as a toy and since then it has turned into the world’s top-selling puzzle. As of January 2009, at least 350 million cubes have sold worldwide.

  •       Solving the Rubik’s Cube can take anywhere from seconds to hours. The official championship record for 2008 is 7.08 seconds.

  • The shortest sequence of moves that the most efficient algorithm takes to solve the Cube is known as “God’s number.” In 1981, it was thought a maximum of 52 moves was required. By August 2008, it had been reduced to 22.

If you’d like to geek out further on the math of solving the Rubik’s Cube efficiently, the Cube 20 site has all the details.













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