God's algorithm for megaminx <U,R>
Submitted by Ben Whitmore on Sun, 09/22/2024 - 11:24.
Today I finished running a disk-based breadth first search through megaminx <U,R>. The diameter is 26.
Depth New Total 0 1 1 1 8 9 2 32 41 3 128 169 4 512 681 5 2048 2729 6 8176 10905 7 32400 43305 8 128608 171913 9 509927 681840 10 2021092 2702932 11 8003554 10706486 12 31678834 42385320 13 125307530 167692850 14 495157495 662850345 15 1953478687 2616329032 16 7682157029 10298486061 17 29984818955 40283305016 18 114831820323 155115125339 19 417957132495 573072257834 20 1325871801018 1898944058852 21 2934550836931 4833494895783 22 2736869164561 7570364060344 23 427540149248 7997904209592 24 1770867597 7999675077189 25 7595 7999675084784 26 16 7999675084800 27 0 7999675084800 Date: 2024-09-14 to 2024-09-22 Time: 7 days 3 hours Total disk I/O: 227 TiB (113.35 TiB write, 113.63 TiB read) across four 4TB HDDs Hardware: HP Z820 with two 12 core Xeon E5-2697 V2 processors, 176GB memoryThe 16 positions that take 26 moves are the ones with 7 corners twisted one way, and 1 corner twisted the other way. The 25 move positions are listed here.