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
Truncated cube The truncated triangular trapezohedron is another polyhedron which can be formed from cube edge truncation. The "truncated cube", is second in a sequence of truncated hypercubes: In the mathematical field of graph theory, a truncated cubical graph is the graph of vertices and edges of the "truncated cube", one of the Archimedean solids. It has 24 vertices and 36 edges, and is a cubic Archimedean graph. Truncated cube In geometry, the truncated cube, or truncated hexahedron, is an Archimedean solid. It has 14 regular faces (6 octagonal and 8 triangular), 36 edges, and 24 vertices. If the truncated cube has