20 moves or fewer to solve a Rubik’s Cube

Any scrambled cube can be solved in 20 moves or fewer, researchers claim.

The international team used a bank of computers at Google to help crank through the solutions.

The figure is known as “God’s number” because an all-knowing entity would know the optimal number of steps needed to solve the puzzle.

“We now know for certain that the magic number is 20,” Professor Morley Davidson, a mathematician from Kent State University, told BBC News.

The results suggest that there are more than 100,000 starting positions – of a possible 43 billion billion – that can be solved in exactly 20 moves.

However, the majority of solutions take between 15 and 19 moves to solve.

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While looking for a picture of this article I found some impressive art made from the retro toy.

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I crapped my pants just watching this

The day before I shot this video, I was SUP surfing with a couple friends and 2 sharks circled us for about 15 minutes. the next day, I decided to go back out at around the same time and take my GO PRO HD camera mounted on a 10 ft pole and do some exploring.

Sure enough within 5 minutes a 9 ft shark came out of no where and circled twice and slapped his tail on my board before disappearing. then a minute later a 7 ft young juvenile Great White swam circles around me for 12 minutes.

There’s just that something about murky water and then seeing a ghostly image of a shark coming at you . . . and this dude isn’t freaked out one bit.

Me my Shark and I from Chuck Patterson on Vimeo.

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