Surely everyone has tried to solve a Rubik’s Cube at some point. And most of us know how frustrating that can be: after countless twists and turns, you still end up staring at a chaotic color pattern — even though it feels like you’ve tried every combination.
But do you know how many possible combinations a Rubik’s Cube actually has?
To be precise: 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 — that’s about 43.25 quintillion.
To put this into perspective: if you tried one combination every second, it would take 1.37 trillion years to try them all — that’s about 100 times the age of the universe! […]