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| Hi everybody! I was idly flipping through my copy of The Ultimate LEGO book the other day and I noticed a little bit of trivia on page 8. It says that two 2x4 bricks can be combined in 24 ways, three bricks: 1060 ways, and six bricks: 102,981,500 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| Very interesting! One of my co-workers is a math geek - the next time I see him I'll ask him about this problem. I think it falls under the category of math known as combinational topology. Brickshelf's thumbnail script produced an interesting (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) true, but unavoidable. brickshelf was designed, as far as I know, to host picture (photoes) of lego creations, meetings, etc... since those are pictures that weren't generated by a computer, they will almost always be better compressed as (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I did my honours year in Combinatorics which is the area of mathematics dealing with combining things (essentially). I've considered looking at the the number of ways of combining any number of bricks (like 10 for example) but the problem is (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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