Rubik's Cube could be coloured in such a way as to emphasise the corners or edges, rather than the faces as the standard colouring does; but neither of these alternative colourings has ever become popular. The original (3×3×3) Rubik's Cube has eight corners and twelve edges. There are 8! (40,320) ways to arrange the corner cubes. Each corner has three possible orientations, although only seven (of eight) can be oriented independently; the orientation of the eighth (final) corner depends on the preceding seven, giving 3 (2,187) possibilities. There are 12!/2 (239,500,800) ways to arrange the edges, restricted from 12! because edges must
Rubik's Cube group define orientation. One choice is the following group, given by generators (the last generator is a 3 cycle on the edges): Since "C" is a normal subgroup and the intersection of "C" and "C" is the identity and their product is the whole cube group, it follows that the cube group "G" is the semi-direct product of these two groups. That is Next we can take a closer look at these two groups. The structure of "C" is since the group of rotations of each corner (resp. edge) cube is formula_30 (resp. formula_31), and in each case all but one