Word: rubik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rubik 's Cube is good for 43.2 quintillion headaches...
...measure, Büvös Kocka is the hottest number to come out of Budapest since the Gabor girls went West. Büvös Kocka means Magic Cube, but out side Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Ernö Rubik...
...looks innocuous enough-a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color. Each side is divided into three rows, each row into three smaller cubes ("cubies"). Each row can be made to rotate 360° so that one can twiddle the cube from top to bottom or from side to side...
David Singmaster, 42, an American who lectures on mathematics and computing at London's Polytechnic of the South Bank, is believed to know more about Rubik's Cube than even Ernö Rubik. Singmaster, whose 60-page Notes on Rubik's "Magic Cube" has gone into five editions, has become an unofficial repository of the puzzle's lore. An English postal engineer wrote him to report that cube playing had reduced his office's efficiency to zero, but that "being a government department, no one noticed." A Whitehall bureaucrat pleaded with him to supply...