Re: The most improbable thing you\'ve ever seen?
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there's probably more than one congifuration that is solved.
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If anyone could confirm this, I would appreciate it. But how many possible "solved" configurations can there be out of 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 total possible configurations?
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didnt read through thread prolly out there already, the number are locked into place, like the 5 is always in the middle, so that cuts down the possiblities drastically.
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The 43 quintillion number is the actual correct number of configurations of any 3x3x3 Rubik's cube. The fact that the 5s are fixed doesn't help. As I've said before, the trick now is to determine how many states there are with the numerals 1-9 one every face exactly once, but not necessarilly in correct order (there may be as many as 12 indistinguishable "perfectly solved" states with the numbers in correct order; I'm not sure yet).
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Will someone just do the math already. Im tired of this stupid cube discussion ruining a good thread about sports comebacks.
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