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I optimally solved three million positions in four distinct metrics.
These positions are distinct from the three million positions I ran
some years back. Random numbers were generated with the Mersenne
Twister algorithm. The four metrics I ran were quarter-turn metric,
half-turn metric, slice-turn metric, and axial-turn metric (equivalent
to the robot-turn or simultaneous-turn metric on the 3x3 cube).

The generators for each metric are strict super- or sub-sets of the
generators for the other metrics. The quarter-turn metric has 12
generators, the half-turn metric has 18 generators, the slice-turn