A079743 Number of positions that are exactly n moves from the starting position in the Diamond puzzle.

1, 8, 48, 288, 1632, 8568, 36114, 74799, 16547, 220, 15

Offset

0,2

Comments

Also, number of positions that are exactly n moves from the starting position in the Skewb Diamond puzzle.

This is the number of positions that can be reached in n moves from the start, but which cannot be reached in fewer than n moves.

A puzzle in the Rubik cube family. The total number of distinct positions is 138240.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..10.

Jaap Scherphuis, Puzzle Pages

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A295375 A081554 A231109 * A079765 A079744 A079746

Adjacent sequences: A079740 A079741 A079742 * A079744 A079745 A079746

Keyword

nonn,fini,full

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 20 2003

Extensions

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 17 2009 at the suggestion of R. J. Mathar

Status

approved