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On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Julian Hall wrote:
'A 30-year quest to find the minimum number of moves needed to solve every one of the billions of configurations for a Rubik's Cube may have ended.'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10929159Wouldn't this be a classic case for distributed computing? Since they've spent 30 years and still not finished I would have thought so.
I think it was discovered by a distributed computing algorithm - Google donated the servers, but they declined to say how many...
Not sure where I read an overview of how they did it now. Might have been the register or wired...
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