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A079767
Number of positions that are exactly n moves from the starting position in the Dino Cube puzzle.
0
1, 16, 160, 1408, 11712, 90912, 640192, 3740838, 11138597, 4313963, 20577
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
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.
There are two starting positions, mirror images of each other. Sequence gives total number of positions at distance n from one of the starting positions.
A puzzle in the Rubik cube family. The total number of distinct positions is 19958400.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A224058 A073394 A038846 * A079768 A053410 A225591
KEYWORD
nonn,fini,full
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 20 2003
STATUS
approved