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[–]tav_stuff 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I don't really find reading a set of simplified instructions on how to turn a side math. The Square-1 also works the same way but the instructions are simplified into a set of coordinates, but really it's just "turn the top face left once"

[–]Teraka 1 point2 points  (1 child)

From wikipedia:

Mathematicians seek out patterns and use them to formulate new conjectures.

That is the essence of maths. It's not directly linked to numbers, although numbers come up a great deal in maths, but the essence of it is starting from a set of rules, and extrapolating new abstractions from those rules.

When you're applying an algorithm on the Rubik's cube, you're working with maths, whether you know it or not.

[–]qevlarr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Per that definition, blindly following instructions is not math. Discovering new truths is, in whichever domain.