Watch a Computer Solve a Virtual Rubik’s Cube the Size of a Skyscraper
via MOTHERBOARD
The program and video are the creation of YouTuber “ShellPuppy,” an American engineer and software developer. He started the project, he said in an email, after he watched a YouTube video showing a computer solving a 55×55 Rubik’s cube and thought that he could try something even more challenging. A 55×55 cube is “tiny,” he said.
“Computers have so much more memory and processing power,” ShellPuppy said. “So I sat down and did some back of the napkin math and figured out what I could do with 32gb of ram. I came up with 65,536×65,536 (I like powers of 2).”
