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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 comments:

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

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  2. THE GR8
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    Y-RUBIKS CUBE,X-ERNO RUBIK

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  3. ALSO

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

    ATLEAST I THOT SO

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  4. professor erno rubik n rubiks cube

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  5. Rubik and Rubik's Cube.
    Rubik's cube was invented in 1974 not in 1972 as the question implies.
    http://guessthelogo.blogspot.com/

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