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Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-use-of-spare-time dept.

A few years ago we reported that it had been proven that Rubik's Cubes could be solved in 23 moves. Well now that number is down to just 20. Proving it required 35 years of computer time donated by Google to get it done.

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  1. Re:Thank God! by jridley · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't have to, World Community Grid has already been doing cancer cure grid computing for years.
    This one is complete:
    http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hdc/overview.do

    These two are still running:
    http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hcc1/overview.do

    http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hfcc/overview.do