N mathematics (talking billions and over here)

[koipen]

I decided to find out just how vast the screen of N is. It is so impossibly vast, I cannot grasp.

Placing one Door and Switch on a 100 x 100 pixel grid with 10 x 10 squares, and assuming you can orientate the door in each square for every side, and put the switch on any pixel, you get 4 000 000 (400 x 10 000) combinations. 4 000 000 x 4 000 000 is 16 000 000 000 000. Or 16 billions. That is two doors on a many times smaller grid than N, with no variation on any other objects what so ever.

No surprise this game can keep you on your grip. The next step is to find all combinations for the 34 different tiles and the many different positions.

[Scrivener]

4 million squared is actually 16 trillion, not billion. and the number of possible tilesets is 34^(31*23). I'll have that number in a second, hold on. maybe.

here: http://script.pastebin.com/JS6neQku


Tsukatu's edit:
General Rule: Don't make posts that create horizontal scrollbars.

Scrivener's edit: Thanks, corrected

[heatwave]

yes indeedy.

[koipen]

I'm using European system, since I live in Europe. I'm not sure of the policies around here, so I specify my numbers in advance.

E: Hey I'm not the only Macist around here!

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

+5 points to heatwave for using irb.

It would have been +50 if you had gone with bare necessities:

[heatwave]

I stand one-upped. :)

[29403]

That number could beat me up anyday. Me scared.

Scrivener, a billion can be two different numbers. The one you and I use as a billion is 1,000,000,000. Some people call it a milliard.
1,000,000,000,000 is a billion for those people (and presumably koipen).