Re: [pbmserv] Re: Broadcast from jjartus via PBM Server

[Randall Bart <barticus@att.net>]

'Twas 06:22 PM +0000 on Saturday 3/6/2004 when Jan Kristian Haugland wrote:
> > Your number is probably right.  How did you calculate it?
>
> Brute force on the computer. I generated all possible configurations
> and counted those that could not become "alphabetically smaller" by
> rotations, reflections or colour replacement.

That was my guess, because...

> I should probably be able
> to calculate it directly, but...

Direct calculation is tricky.  You would need to categorize all the 
reflections, rotations, and substitutions that mimic each other and count 
them.

We both know good ways to get usable numbers.
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