Rubik's Cube

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Josh Johnson sees the Rubik's Cube as a genuinely worthwhile learning challenge, appreciating both the sheer complexity—43 quintillion possible combinations—and the elegant mathematical principle that any configuration can be solved in 20 moves or fewer ("God's number"). He frames it as a way to stretch his brain after a long time of not learning something new.

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  …discussing new hobby of solving rubik's cubes while traveling

  “And then the rest of the time, I've been trying to get better at Rubik's Cubes. Basically, I look at it as I hadn't learned something in a long time. And this felt like something that there was an infinite amount to learn about. There are 43 quintillion combinations that the cube can be in. And they found that God's number was 20. So in all of these 43 quintillion combinations, there are 20 moves away is as far as you are from having this scramble solved.”

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