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Five generator group of the 3x3x3 cube

As is well known we can dispense with one of the Singmaster generators to still realise the whole of the 3x3x3 cube e.g. using the generating set . Apologies if this has come up before - I was wondering if there has been any analysis on the likely diameter with these five generators including inverses in the QTM? I am guessing that it will be in excess of 26.