[algogeeks] Re: How many different permutations of a Rubik's cube are possible?

2009-10-04 Thread ankur aggarwal
The original (3×3×3) Rubik's Cube has eight corners and twelve edges. There are 8! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial (40,320) ways to arrange the corner cubes. Seven can be oriented independently, and the orientation of the eighth depends on the preceding seven, giving 37 (2,187)

[algogeeks] Re: interesting game

2009-10-04 Thread Geoffrey Summerhayes
On Oct 3, 4:49 am, eSKay catchyouraak...@gmail.com wrote: okay... perhaps It's a 2-player game that's deterministic, zero-sum, perfect information, finite, and without ties. So a winning strategy exists for one of the players. should have been mentioned... I didn't know that. Btw, what