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A comment on God's Number Is 20 (2010). Parent comment

Re:God's Number Is 20 (2010) by drilldrive on Thursday April 18, 2019 @03:01PM (#19693814)
For ideal solve competitions, do we input the cube into a computer to have surety on the ideal solve number?
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Re:God's Number Is 20 (2010) by cyphar on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:53AM (#19697184)
I believe so. In addition, for smallest-move competitions you're actually given the scramble moves -- so your job is to apply a bunch of mathematical techniques to shorten the number of moves to the smallest number you can.
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