{"id":2100,"date":"2016-06-07T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2018-12-14T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:56:51","slug":"5x5-edge-parity-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2100","title":{"rendered":"5&#215;5 Edge Parity Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5x5-parity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5x5-parity-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"5x5-parity\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5x5-parity-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5x5-parity-768x885.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5x5-parity-889x1024.jpg 889w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5x5-parity.jpg 1313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>I love me those odd-numbered cubes.  Those even-numbered ones are a PITA sometimes and their parity is obnoxious.  However, a nice 5&#215;5 is a relaxing, fun jaunt.  And relaxing is the word to use&#8230;as it&#8217;s not difficult and there&#8217;s only this parity to know.  It&#8217;s an easy algorithm but I&#8217;d forgotten it along the way.  Muscle memory only goes so far when you haven&#8217;t used it in a year plus.  Here&#8217;s a quick-to-look-up algorithm.  Placing the mismatched singletons on the right just do the following algorithm for an easy fix!<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>(Ll)&#8217; \/ U<sup>2<\/sup> \/ (Ll)&#8217; \/ U<sup>2<\/sup><br \/>\nF<sup>2<\/sup> \/ (Ll)&#8217; \/ F<sup>2<\/sup> \/ (Rr)<br \/>\nU<sup>2<\/sup> \/ (Rr)&#8217; \/ U<sup>2<\/sup> \/ (Ll)<sup>2<\/sup><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love me those odd-numbered cubes. Those even-numbered ones are a PITA sometimes and their parity is obnoxious. However, a nice 5&#215;5 is a relaxing, fun jaunt. And relaxing is the word to use&#8230;as it&#8217;s not difficult and there&#8217;s only this parity to know. It&#8217;s an easy algorithm but I&#8217;d forgotten it along the way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algorithms","category-blog","category-cubing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}