that it would either be 5 x 10 or 10 x 5 and that you would start in a corner and start filling vertically or horizontally. So far 16 combinations. You could fill one of the following ways:
- fill a row or column, return and fill the next, etc.
- fill a row or column and fill the next in the other direction, alternating directions each time
- use a diagonal fill, which could be filled by returning to the same edge each diagonal you fill
- a diagonal fill which you change directions back and forth
- fill using a spiral.
- fill using a spiral starting with the end of the text.
That would be a total of only 96 combinations. There are also many, many fill patterns I haven't covered (ie. filling every third square), but I don't think they would be very likely.
Or I could be wrong altogether. It could be 2 x 25 or 25 x 2 or even a 3D grid of 2 x 5 x 5! And covering every possible combination of filling the grid, you would have 50! x 5 or about 1.52 x 1065. |
