How many possible combinations does a Rubik’s Cube have?

Gaming brutal Data from 2024

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Answer in combinations. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

43,252,003,274,489,860,000 combinations

Roughly 43,252,003.3T.

A 3×3 cube has about 43 quintillion combinations, yet any of them can be solved in 20 moves or fewer — a result proved by computer in 2010 and nicknamed "God’s number".

Where this number comes from

Source Rubik’s / mathematical group theory
Figure refers to 2024
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Unit combinations

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