Introducing “Shunya”

 

I take great pleasure in introducing Shunya – a brand new blog of mine.

Shunya is my second blog and is primarily going to be a reflection of my experiences as a webmaster at the Stamford International University as well as some of the choicest picks on numerics & computing.

 

Cracking the Rubik’s Cube in 26 moves… or fewer

 
Disassembled Rubik

You might think this is a joke, but Dan Kunkle and Gene Cooperman of Northeastern University, Boston beg to differ. They can do theirs in no more that 26 moves !! Kunkle, a computer scientist at NEU and his advisor Cooperman jointly came up with some advanced mathematical and computational strategies that helped them solve this mind-boggling puzzle in no time.
The Rubik’s cube can have…

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