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Two people are playing tic-tac-toe. How many ways can they make the first two moves, if we only count board positions that are different under any symmetry of the board?

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

10th Edition

ISBN:9780470458365

Author:Erwin Kreyszig

Publisher:Erwin Kreyszig

Chapter2: Second-order Linear Odes

Section: Chapter Questions

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