User blog:Edwin Shade/An Algorithmic Analysis Of The 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube

In this blog post I will be exhibiting ways to extract exponential-sized numbers from the combinatorics of twisty puzzles. In five minutes however I must go somewhere, so I'm just posting this so that I can save my progress thus far. It will be updated when I get back in a few hours.

3x3x3 Functions
The first function to be introduced is $$M(n)$$, which outputs the result of multiplying together the cycle length, (or the time such that