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Part of 2008 China Girls Math Olympiad

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2800 x 2800 chessboard

Source: China Girls Math Olympiad 2008, Problem 7

8/26/2008
On a given 2008×2008 2008 \times 2008 chessboard, each unit square is colored in a different color. Every unit square is filled with one of the letters C, G, M, O. The resulting board is called harmonic if every 2×2 2 \times 2 subsquare contains all four different letters. How many harmonic boards are there?
combinatorics