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Coloured Configurations

ℹ️Published on Saturday, 17th May 2008, 10:00 am; Solved by 1611;
Difficulty rating: 75%

Consider graphs built with the units $A$: and $B$: , where the units are glued along the vertical edges as in the graph .

A configuration of type $(a, b, c)$ is a graph thus built of $a$ units $A$ and $b$ units $B$, where the graph's vertices are coloured using up to $c$ colours, so that no two adjacent vertices have the same colour.
The compound graph above is an example of a configuration of type $(2,2,6)$, in fact of type $(2,2,c)$ for all $c \ge 4$.

Let $N(a, b, c)$ be the number of configurations of type $(a, b, c)$.
For example, $N(1,0,3) = 24$, $N(0,2,4) = 92928$ and $N(2,2,3) = 20736$.

Find the last $8$ digits of $N(25,75,1984)$.



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