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Groups and the Group Axioms · Challenge problem

A set {e,a,b}\{e,a,b\} has ee as a two-sided identity, so the first row and column of its Cayley table already read e,a,be,a,b. How many different ways are there to fill in the remaining 44 entries so that every row and column still contains each of e,a,be,a,b exactly once (ignore associativity for this count)?