A079771 Number of positions that are exactly n moves from the starting position in the Bicube or Bandaged Rubik's Cube puzzle.

1, 9, 24, 54, 102, 168, 296, 583, 996, 1817, 3196, 5739, 9785, 17075, 29279, 48552, 77828, 115384, 155444, 179617, 172952, 133159, 82486, 43199, 19613, 7781, 2833, 747, 81

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.

A puzzle in the Rubik cube family. The total number of distinct positions is 1108800.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..28.

Jaap Scherphuis, Puzzle Pages

Crossrefs

Cf. A079770.

Sequence in context: A022787 A365190 A079770 * A297225 A258438 A038626

Adjacent sequences: A079768 A079769 A079770 * A079772 A079773 A079774

Keyword

nonn,fini,full

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 20 2003

Status

approved