This was a really interesting project. 1. The community solved it really fast, within a day or three, but a single programmer solved it even faster [1]. You co

This was a really interesting project. 1. The community solved it really fast, within a day or three, but a single programmer solved it even faster [1]. You could also argue that it was the month or so [2] making the website that led to the solution. 2. It was really common to use Minecraft to visualize the solution [3]. I think this speaks to the benefit of tools that make it very easy to manipulate and visualize a system [4]. [1]: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/199097/which-unfoldings-of-the-hypercube-tile-3-space-how-to-check-for-isometric-space/392828#392828 https://mathoverflow.net/questions/199097/which-unfoldings-o... [2] https://twitter.com/oliverdunk_/status/1393366708652548114 https://twitter.com/oliverdunk_/status/1393366708652548114 [3] https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1393516840232624133 https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1393516840232624133 [4] Just... any Brett Victor video. e.g. http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/ http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/