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nzealandtoday at 2:35 AM1 replyview on HN

It took Ernő Rubik four years to develop the cube.

He immediately scrambled it, then spent the next month figuring out if it could be solved.

Luckily no one told him there were 43 quintillion valid combinations.


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avandekleuttoday at 2:44 AM

Solved theoretically? I figure you could at least intuit that reversing all the moves in the scramble in reverse order would solve it.

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