shadowslice e
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It depends which method and which piece you're talking about. for edges, a piece is defined as oriented in various ways that mean you can solve it using only a specific set of moves (for example {R,U,L} for ZZ, {M2,U} for Roux, {R,U} for Petrus etc). they are all essentially subsets of the group {R,U,L,D} which is what is mean when oriented is used with edges in the broadest sense.Noon question but I'must confused. I intuitively solve the cube and don't really think if a piece is orientated or not. However, when watching YouTube tutorials this is now confusing me. Can someone please explain how I tell if a piece is orientated or not... Sorry if this is a dumb question but I just can't seem to understand it... Thanks.
Corners are different in that a piece is defined as oriented if all corners can be brought to their solved positions using only double moves.
CFOP and last layer/ last slot methods are slightly different because they don't really care about reducing the moves to a specific subset and instead just what to reduce the cases. For example, OLL orients all the edges and corners by making them all face upwards and VHLS orients the edges while solving the last slot.