Saturday, December 4, 2010

Question 915

Question from Soumya, our most frequent guest contributor:

In March 1970, Larry Nichols invented a 2×2×2 Puzzle and filed a Canadian patent application for it. Two years later X invented Y. Names such as 'The Gordian Knot' and 'Inca Gold' were considered for it but the name Y stuck. There are around 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations of the puzzle. Software can also simulate very large puzzles that are impractical to come up with, such as 100×100×100 and 1,000×1,000×1,000.

Id X and Y.


Answer: Erno Rubik and the Rubik's cube

12 Answers:

Nanda said...

Rubik and Rubik's cube

Unknown said...

question from AWES Inter Command School Quiz ont the 25th of novomber, 2010 - Erntesto Rubik, who made the Rubik's cube.

Kaushik said...

Rubik's cube

Matthew said...

THE GR8
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Y-RUBIKS CUBE,X-ERNO RUBIK

Matthew said...

ALSO

U CN ACTUALLY SOLVE IT.ITS NOT IMPOSSIBLE...........

ATLEAST I THOT SO

manushya said...

erno rubik
rubik's cube

rishwin said...

professor erno rubik n rubiks cube

Aviral said...

Prof Rubik. Rubik's cube

Chinmay said...

X=Erno Rubik
Y=Rubiks cube

Unknown said...

Rubik's Cube

Tejas Gokhale said...

X=Ernesto Rubik
Y=Rubik's Cube

Harshvardhan Agrawal said...

Rubik and Rubik's Cube.
Rubik's cube was invented in 1974 not in 1972 as the question implies.
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