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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 01:01:52 -0500
From: michael reid <reid@math.brown.edu>
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Subject: Re : Re: Edges only, Ignoring Flips, Face Turn Metric

i guess i'm not sure what you're doing, jerry.  but i don't think
it should be *that* difficult.  the number of configurations is
12! = about 480 million.  if you divide out by symmetry, you get
about 10 million configurations.  this should be small enough to
store in memory and do a complete breadth-first search of the space.

mike