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How many different ways can you combine just six standard 2x4 LEGO bricks of the same color?

915 million
combinations
915,103,765 exactly, give or take
Six humble 2x4 bricks can be combined 915,103,765 different ways — a number LEGO itself underestimated for decades until a mathematician ran the full computation.SOURCESoren Eilers, University of Copenhagen (2005)
Scale check: 915 million is roughly about the population of Japan.
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