Rubik called his invention the “Magic Cube” (in Hungarian originally “Buvuos Kocka”). It was renamed the Rubik's Cube by the Ideal Toy Corporation in 1980, as a result of complicated international patenting process.
The number of Rubik's Cube permutations is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 - which is approximately forty-three quintillion.
As the “Cubing” still infects people of all ages around the globe, there has been a name give for those obsessed with a Rubik Cube. They are called “Cubaholics”. Many of real Cubaholics are said to suffer from 'Rubik's wrist' and 'Cubist's thumb'!
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