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An unsolved problem: how many solutions are there to the 8-Color Cube?
Submitted by Peter Tchamitch on Mon, 06/17/2019 - 15:27.
The 8-Color Cube is an extremely elegant problem, both in appearance and concept;
The cube is very easy to make at home: numbered stickers are available everywhere and the whole construction process takes only about 15 minutes. As you can see, Walter Randelshofer and myself have managed to find a number of extra solutions separate from the pre-existing design solution with its ”Superflip Centre” variant, however the real problem remains: how many solutions are there, in theory, to the 8-Color Cube?--this is the tough and so-far unanswered question that we would like to ask our honored fellow-members of the Cube Forum to consider. The problem seems easy: ”How hard can that be?!” one thinks...initially(!)...it actually turns out to be pretty intractable... |
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