Pocket Cube court affirmed the judgment that Rubik's 2×2×2 Pocket Cube infringed Nichols's patent, but overturned the judgment on Rubik's 3×3×3 Cube. Any permutation of the eight corners is possible (8! positions), and seven of them can be independently rotated (3 positions). There is nothing identifying the orientation of the cube in space, reducing the positions by a factor of 24. This is because all 24 possible positions and orientations of the first corner are equivalent due to the lack of fixed centers. This factor does not appear when calculating the permutations of N×N×N cubes where N is odd, since those puzzles
Dino Cube the limit by 2. The edge pieces cannot be flipped or misorientated (See "Solving"), therefore this is also not taken into account. The total number of possible combinations on the six-colour Dino Cube is therefore equal to: This number is low compared to the number of combinations of the Rubik's Cube (which has over 4.3×10 combinations) but still larger than many other puzzles in the Rubik's Cube family, notably the Pocket Cube (over 3.6 million combinations) and the Pyraminx (just over 930 thousand combinations, excluding rotations of the trivial tips). The number of possible of configurations, 19 958 400, is