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Over the past few weeks I've run 250 random cosets of the Kociemba group, each with 19,508,428,800 positions, out to completion, calculating an optimal solution to all. This is a total of 4,877,107,200,000 positions, almost all unique modulo M+inv. I ran these to try to get a better estimate of the total count of 20f* positions and also to compare the overall histogram of position depths against my previous work to calculate the exact count of 13f* positions, and Kociemba's recent experiment to optimally solve a one hundred thousand random cube positions.

Of these 250 random cosets, 232 had absolutely no distance-20