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by TomSwirly 1403 days ago
> it is not really an algebra thing. It's a bijection between finite sets thing.

Mathematician here. Even just a bijection between finite sets is in fact algebra.

But the space of all Rubik's Cube positions is in fact a finite non-commutative group - right smack-dab in the middle of the field of algebra.