Origins
Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by Erno Rubik. Erno Rubik was a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture. It was originally called Magic Cube, and Rubik licensed it to Ideal Toy Corp in 1980. The Rubik's Cube consists of 26 individual little cubes or cubies that rotate
on a central axis. Each layer of nine cubies can twist and the layers can
overlap. Any three squares in a row, except diagonally, can join a new layer.
Today, it is one of the world's best sold puzzle
games and about 350 million cubes have been sold till now. The fastest time it
has taken for a human to solve the puzzle is 5.55 seconds.
Solving It
There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 or approximately 43 quintillion possible arrangements to the puzzle, but only 1 correct arrangement will solve the puzzle.
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