Number of Permutations for L5C?

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Two questions.
1. title (Last 5 corners)
2. would it be suitable for speedsolving? (probably not)

What I think it is: 5!*3^4/15. Is this correct?

EDIT:
What would it be if a certain corner were in a certain spot everytime? i.e Setup R U R' U' The FDR corner is always in URF. How many cases for that?
 
You'll have to elaborate on this a bit...

Edit: Also, check out the 'new methods' thread, there are plenty of people there who might be able to help you out.

The corners in the U layer are all unsolved. FDR is also scrambled.

That is what I mean by L5C (Last 5 corners)

Setup: U' L' U2 R U' R' U2 L U'

How many permutations for a case like this (corners only) where RFD is in UFR
 
There are 1009 corner 3-cycles from any buffer. If I multiply all of these by each other and filter out only the pure 5-cycles and not count duplicates, I get 108'864 total corner 5-cycles.
 
I get 5!/2 possible permutations (must be even parity as edges are solved) and 3^4 possible orientations (orientation of the 5th corner is set by the other four). That gives 4860 cases. Having a particular corner in a specific location reduces it by a factor of 5.
 
Sorry made a mistake. The four is meant to be a five.

(5!*3^5)/12

5! = number of permutations for 5 corners
3^5 = number of orientations for 5 corners
/12 = dividing all parities

In a similar fashion,

(12!*2^12*8!*3^8)/12 = 43 quintillion

I'm slightly guessing here but wouldn't it be (5!*3^4)/12 becuase the last corner orientation depends on the previous 4

So there would be (if there was 1 fixed corner) (4!*3^4)/12= 168 possibilities

In the same way, ((12!*2^11)*(8!*3^7))/2 =4.32*10^16=~43 quintillion

I divided by 2 as there has to be an even number of 2-swaps, the 12!*2^11 denotes the number of edge positions and the 8!*3^7 denotes the corners.
 
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I'm slightly guessing here but wouldn't it be (5!*3^4)/12 becuase the last corner orientation depends on the previous 4

So there would be (if there was 1 fixed corner) (4!*3^4)/12= 168 possibilities

Ugh got it wrong again, must be drunk or something today lol
(5!*3^5)/12 = 2430 possible ab5c
This video probably explains it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV9k6dRQQe4

Fixed corners don't matter since we're dividing by all the parities.
 
I think it's 602, because:
CLL, TCLL+ and TCLL-, this is for 1 corner in the FDR spot, and there are 5 corners so 40x3x5=600 + 2 pll algs?
if you're including AUF's for every top layer case it would be a lot more i think...
correct me if i'm wrong.
 
I think it's 602, because:
CLL, TCLL+ and TCLL-, this is for 1 corner in the FDR spot, and there are 5 corners so 40x3x5=600 + 2 pll algs?
if you're including AUF's for every top layer case it would be a lot more i think...
correct me if i'm wrong.

I don't think mixing alg sets is a great idea for working out combos, especially when they're for 2x2, not 3x3 :p
 
Without auf-ing it is easy to figure out that it is:

5*4*3 = 5!/2 For permutations because 1st corner can be in any of the 5 spots 2nd in any of the remaining 4 and 3rd in the remaining 3 spots. The order of last to pieces is already known here because all edges are solved. So it becomes 5*4*3*1*1 actually.

3^4 For orientations because 4 out of 5 corners can be in any of the 3 orientations so 3*3*3*3 and once again the last corner must be in the only orientation that makes cube solvable so that's just 3*3*3*3*1.

Put those together and you have (5!/2)*3^4
 
Sorry, I forgot to mention that this is for 2x2/ or with edges solved

As I said above those give pretty different numbers.

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Without auf-ing it is easy to figure out that it is:

5*4*3 = 5!/2 For permutations because 1st corner can be in any of the 5 spots 2nd in any of the remaining 4 and 3rd in the remaining 3 spots. The order of last to pieces is already known here because all edges are solved. So it becomes 5*4*3*1*1 actually.

3^4 For orientations because 4 out of 5 corners can be in any of the 3 orientations so 3*3*3*3 and once again the last corner must be in the only orientation that makes cube solvable so that's just 3*3*3*3*1.

Put those together and you have (5!/2)*3^4

Yep this is pretty much the exact same logic I went through with my calculation.
 
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