Rubik's Cube

Rubik's family cubes of varying sizes

The original Rubik's cube was a mechanical 3×3×3 cube puzzle invented in 1974 by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Extensions of the Rubik's cube have been around for a long time and come in both hardware and software forms. The major extension have been the availability of cubes of larger size and the availability of the more complex cubes with marked centres. The properties of Rubik’s family cubes of any size together with some special attention to software cubes is the main focus of this article. Many properties are mathematical in nature and are functions of the cube size variable. (Wikipedia).

Rubik's family cubes of varying sizes
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The insanely large number of Rubik's cube permutations | MegaFavNumbers

There are a lot of ways to permute a Rubik's cube. Make your own #MegaFavNumbers video! Make a video about your favorite number above 1,000,000, upload it with MegaFavNumbers in the title, and tag it with #MegaFavNumbers.

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A simple trick to design your own solutions for Rubik's cubes

The vast majority of people who tackle the Rubik's cube never succeed in solving it without looking up somebody else's solution. In this video the Mathologer reveals a simple insight that will enable all those of you who can solve the first layer to design your own full solution for the Ru

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Rubik's cubes, gyroscopes and ...

The wait is over. The Mathologer reveals how he corner balances Rubik's cubes. Enjoy! P.S.: Here are some links in case you are interested in gyroscopes: www.gyroscope.com giant 3x3x3: thecubicle.us/heshu-super-18cm-p-3199.html 13x13x13 Rubik's cube: thecubicle.us/13x13-c-174.html

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nice Rubik's Cube pattern 4

another "orthogonal bars" / "trefoil knot" / "present box" / "gift ribbon" pattern.

From playlist Misc

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Impossible Rubik's cube balance

We are back trying to do the impossible with Rubik's cubes. Today's challenge is to balance a Rubik's cube on one of its corners on a fingertip. If you've done it all, 13x13x13, blindfolded, under 10 seconds, and so on, why not give this a try? Also, check out the "reveal video" at https

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43252003274489856000 my MegaFavNumbers

A short video made for #MegaFavNumbers about the number of permutations of a 3x3x3 Rubiks Cube.

From playlist MegaFavNumbers

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Rik van Grol - Speedsolving the Rubik's Cube: What Are the Limits? - G4G12 April 2016

The Rubik’s Cube is probably the world’s biggest and longest lasting puzzle crazes. Who doesn’t know the Rubik’s Cube? The Rubik’s Cube was invented in the late seventies of the 20th century by Ernõ Rubik, a Hungarian teacher. It was an enormous craze during the early eighties. Then during

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The Trick That Solves Rubik’s Cubes and Breaks Ciphers (Meet in the Middle)

What do the Rubik's cube and a cipher from the 70s have in common? Let's find out. 0:00 Rubik's cube 9:40 DES ------------------------ Links: Feliks setting the 4.73 record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R07JiT0PlcE&ab_channel=FeliksZemdegs webpage "God's number is 20" http://www.cub

From playlist Algorithms

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Four Dimensional Maths: Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension - with Matt Parker

Matt Parker, comedian and mathematician, shows how four-dimensional shapes appear in a 3D world in this hands-on talk, featuring what is possibly the world's nerdiest knitted hat! Subscribe for weekly science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Buy Matt's book "Things to Make and Do in the

From playlist Mathematics

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[OpenAI] Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand | AISC

For slides and more information on the paper, visit https://aisc.ai.science/events/2019-11-25 Discussion lead: Florian Goebels

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Side Project Saturday!

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Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand: Uncut

A full solve of the Rubik’s Cube. This video plays at real-time and was not edited in any way. Learn more: https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/

From playlist Robotics

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Rubik, Escher, Banks - Brian Conrad (Stanford University)

The idea of geometric symmetry in architecture goes back to ancient times, but there is a rich mathematical theory of symmetry with many applications in the modern world. The mathematics of symmetry provides answers to natural questions that arise in topics as diverse as Rubik's Cube, the

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IMS Public Lecture: From Puzzles to Moduli Spaces

Hugo Parlier, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention - with Simon Baron-Cohen

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen argues that our ability to identify patterns, particularly if-and-then patterns, allows humans to be the only animals on the planet with the ability to invent things. Simon's book: 'The Pattern Seekers' is available now: https://geni.us/d5gG Watch the Q&A: h

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OpenAI - Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand | RL paper explained

❤️ Become The AI Epiphany Patreon ❤️ ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ In this video, I cover OpenAI's famous robotic hand that learned to solve the Rubik's cube by training purely in a simulation. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ✅ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/19

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Visual Group Theory, Lecture 1.1: What is a group?

Visual Group Theory, Lecture 1.1: What is a group? In this lecture, we will introduce the concept of a group using the famous Rubik's cube. The formal definition will be given later, in Lecture 1.5. For now, we just want to provide the intuition. Course webpage (with lecture notes, HW, e

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nice Rubik's Cube pattern 2

Another nice pattern on the Rubik's Cube. Well, actually, there is a flaw in it, but you'll see... The nice thing about these patterns is, that they are construced out of basic algorithms like flipping four edges, exchanging four edges, and so on. So you can memorize them easily just by r

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Lecture 13: Breadth-First Search (BFS)

MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms, Fall 2011 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-006F11 Instructor: Erik Demaine License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

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