Moore neighborhood on a two-dimensional Cartesian lattice

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How many distinct cellular automata rules are there that use the Moore neighborhood on a two-dimensional Cartesian lattice if we allow three bits (eight states) per site?

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A rule is a function from the input space (here of size $8^8$) to the output space (which is of size $8$). There's $(8^8)^8 = 2^{24 \cdot 8} = 2^{192}$ such functions.