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
Bhargava cube the edges of the corresponding faces. The integer binary quadratic form associated with this pair of faces is defined as The quadratic form is also defined as However, the former definition will be assumed in the sequel. Let the cube be formed by the integers "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h". The pairs of matrices associated with opposite edges are denoted by ("M", "N"), ("M", "N"), and ("M", "N"). The first rows of "M", "M" and "M" are respectively ["a" "b"], ["a" "c"] and ["a" "e"]. The opposite edges in the same face are the second rows. The