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GRiddles Series A: Puzzle 1

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Chromatic rotations

A 101 × 101 grid is divided into 1012 unit cells. Each cell is to be coloured in yellow, grey or green.

A colouring is called proper if: no two cells sharing an edge have the same colour and every 2 × 2 square composed of four cells contains all three colours.

Proper colourings are grouped as follows: two proper colourings belong to the same group if one can be obtained from the other by a rotation of the grid.

Determine the number of such groups of proper colourings.

Answer format: Write the answer as a decimal or a formula.

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