The World Record Is Under Four Seconds

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The world record is under four seconds. Not my favorite type of puzzle, but i did learn to respect it. A rubics cube has forty three quintilion different combinations and only one correct arrangement. So that is just an astounding number. It makes me think there are sometimes solutions,. as we know, not alway, you now, but there are sometimes.

How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable, including the biggest stumper of all: what it really means to be a human being.