{"id":1032,"date":"2008-12-25T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2008-12-25T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T22:18:10","slug":"flashback-rubik%e2%80%99s-cube-proof-cut-to-25-moves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Rubik\u2019s cube proof cut to 25 moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holiday period, the arXivblog is running a selection of the most popular posts from 2008<\/p>\n<p>26 March 2008: Rubik\u2019s cube proof cut to 25 moves<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a couple of fellas at Northeastern University with a bit of spare time on their hands proved that any configuration of a Rubik\u2019s cube could be solved in a maximum of 26 moves.<\/p>\n<p>Now Tomas Rokicki, a Stanford-trained mathematician, has gone one better. He\u2019s shown that there are no configurations that can be solved in 26 moves, thereby lowering the limit to 25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=332\">Read on&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holiday period, the arXivblog is running a selection of the most popular posts from 2008 26 March 2008: Rubik\u2019s cube proof cut to 25 moves Last year, a couple of fellas at Northeastern University with a bit of spare time on their hands proved that any configuration of a Rubik\u2019s cube could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}