{"id":185,"date":"2007-06-27T16:11:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-06-27T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T22:11:27","slug":"well-maybe-they-can-but-i-sure-couldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Well, maybe they can, but I sure couldn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, continuing on the subject of toys from the last post, a team of scientists has proven that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddj.com\/blog\/portal\/archives\/2007\/05\/rubiks_cube_bus.html\">you can solve any Rubik&#8217;s Cube configuration in not more than 26 moves<\/a>, beating the prior record by one move.<\/p>\n<p>I used to be able to solve Rubik&#8217;s Cube when I was younger (and playing with it fairly regularly), but I couldn&#8217;t do it now without help. I remember the first computerized Rubik&#8217;s Cube solver I ever saw &#8211; it was a program for the Apple ][. You would enter your configuration and tell it to solve the cube. A short time later, it would come back and tell you that it had solved it, and how many moves it took.<\/p>\n<p>What those moves were? Who knew. The program wouldn&#8217;t tell you. Why they expected anybody to buy that program, I&#8217;ll never know. I&#8217;m just glad that programs came in baggies and without activation codes\u00a0 back then. Because of that, there was no problem getting the people at the computer store to open a baggie and run a program so you could see it in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, continuing on the subject of toys from the last post, a team of scientists has proven that you can solve any Rubik&#8217;s Cube configuration in not more than 26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-software","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}