How not to scramble a Rubik's cube
Abstract
We model the scrambling of a Rubik's cube by a Markov chain and introduce a stopping time T which is a quite natural candidate to be a strong uniform time. This may pave the way for estimating the number of moves required to scramble a cube. Unfortunately, we show that T is not this is not strongly uniform.
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