| From: | Blitzwing |
| Date: | 26 Aug 2000 at 13:45:35 |
| Subject: | Re: rubik's cube |
Greetings pbrace@cwctv.net you blurted something about
On 26-Aug-00, you wrote:
> Does anybody have any idea how to write ablitz program to solve a Rubik's
> cube. apart from working out that there are 18 possible moves and the
> total number of positions is in the region of 20 digits long the only
> thing I can think of is a loop trying it first in one move. However with
> this method the total amount of moves goes up by a factor of 18:
>
> Moves Total number
> 1 18
> 2 324
> 3 5832
> 4 104996
> 5 approx 1.8 million
>
> This leads to the proram slowing down a lot. Prehaps it would be better in
> C
> John Brace
>
> A1200 '040+32Mb Ram+0.5Gb hardrive+32x SCSI CD-ROM+56k modem
>
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I can physically solve one in 90 seconds, if you can write a program to do
it quicker, I'll be impressed. But I will try and help you if I can...
for starters, I solve it layer by layer....
Regards
Blitzwing
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