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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's the number of possible games, the number of possible board states is much lower, 10^40.

Although you're still clearly correct in the end anyways because it's still an absurd number of board states and it's not even formatted to be one state per line.