Re: Eternity II
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Interesting...
There's 256 pieces, which can be arranged in 256 factorial ways. That's a huge number - my windows calculator shows it's 8.6x10^506.
It's actually a bit smaller because the corner and edge pieces can only be placed certain way.
But then again, all pieces can be rotated.
I think the formula for 256 pieces that can be rotated 4 ways that do NOT have borders and corners is 4^256 x 256! = 10^661 or so.
That number of combinations is, of course, impossible to compute.
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I was thinking more along the lines of the computer chooses a piece at random and matches it to an available edge that would make it fit.
Dunno much about computers though.
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