ITHACA, N.Y. -- There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations to a rubik's cube.

Just to clarify, that's forty-three quintillion, two hundred fifty-two quadrillion, three trillion, two hundred seventy-four billion, four hundred eighty-nine million, eight hundred fifty-six thousand.

Uhhh, yeah.

Freshman men's basketball player Eitan Chemerinski doesn't hold the world's speedcube record (that would be 7.08 seconds ... watch it here), but that doesn't make this solve any less impressive. I mean, really, how many people do you know that ever solved a rubik's cube? And that's with more than 100 million sold since it first was invented in 1974.

After his teammates botched up the cube, Chemerinski took 2:42 to solve it clean. All of this came in the Sioux Falls, S.D. airport on the way back home after the Kansas-South Dakota trip. Watch it for yourself ...