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Rubik's Speed Cubing - from the New York Times

Rubik’s Cube – Dr. Jessica Fridrich and the Mathematics Behind the Popular Puzzle

By Bill Lombard on 3 January, 2009

Dr. Jessica Fridrich likes to tackle problems that might seem impossible to others. Rubik’s Cube is an example. She has created what is possibly the world’s most common strategy for speed-solving the popular puzzle, and is the subject of a YouTube video. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwojxzhSlWA The Fridrich Method deals with more than 50 algorithms, which are rotations [...]

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