43,252,003,274,489,856,000 Rubik's Cube Combinations - Numberphile
There are 43252003274489856000 ways to arrange a standard 3x3 Rubik's Cube. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ See our full series of Rubik's Cube videos at: http://www.y...
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MATT PARKER: See, most people forgot about the Rubik's Cube back in the '80s, so it had its heyday and then disappeared. But mathematicians remain obsessed with it. KATIE STECKLES: I mean, people probably are aware that there is some math involved in Rubik's Cube. JAMES GRIME: The reason I not interested in the Rubik's Cube was I wanted to use as a teaching tool. In my day job I study something called group theory. KATIE STECKLES: If you go to any kind of Wikipedia page about anything to do with group theory, there will be, in the top corner, a picture of a Rubik's Cube. And the reason for that is that it has got quite a nice example of a group associated with it. And the group is the number of different combinations that there a...
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MATT PARKER: See, most people forgot about the Rubik's Cube back in the '80s, so it had its heyday and then disappeared. But mathematicians remain obsessed with it. KATIE STECKLES: I mean, people probably are aware that there is some math involved in Rubik's Cube. JAMES GRIME: The reason I not interested in the Rubik's Cube was I wanted to use as a teaching tool. In my day job I study something called group theory. KATIE STECKLES: If you go to any kind of Wikipedia page about anything to do with group theory, there will be, in the top corner, a picture of a Rubik's Cube. And the reason for that is that it has got quite a nice example of a group associated with it. And the group is the number of different combinations that there a...
