Random trivia

[WingedPanther]

100! has 158 digits, and ends in 24 0's.

[CommittedC0der]

Is this the answer? 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381
62146859296389521759999322991560894146397615651828
62536979208272237582511852109168640000000000000000
00000000

[WingedPanther]

Yes.

[CommittedC0der]

Cool.

[CommittedC0der]

OK how many different combination's can a Rubiks Cube have?

[ZekeDragon]

Here's a program to prove what WingedPanther said in Haskell:

main = do
    putStrLn (show $ (\x -> (x, numberOfDigits x, zerosOnEnd x)) $ factorialList !! 100)

factorialList = 1 : 1 : [x * y | (x, y) <- zip [2..] (tail factorialList)]

numberOfDigits :: (Show a) => a -> Int
numberOfDigits = length . show

zerosOnEnd :: (Show a) => a -> Int
zerosOnEnd = length . takeWhile (== '0') . reverse . show

[WingedPanther]

OK how many different combination's can a Rubiks Cube have?

Do you want all theoretically possible combinations, or just the ones possible through rotations of the cube?

@Zeke: I just typed it in on my new toy: an HP 50g calculator

[CommittedC0der]

Do you want all theoretically possible combinations, or just the ones possible through rotations of the cube?

Just the ones possible through the rotations of the cube.

[WingedPanther]

Cube maths - Rubik's Official Online Site

[CommittedC0der]

Correct.