So I was thinking, how many possible games can be played
What do I mean by that?
I mean how many combinations of micro-games could be played and I set out to answer this question
So here's the short answer:
Now how did I get this number?
Okay now that you've answered how many possible numbers can be there I don't see what is so amazing about that number well let me try to impress upon you how large this number is
Now you may be thinking "jollow you aren't taking into account release dates though" but that is what I am about to do
So yeah, there you have it
now don't mind me while I go rethink my life choices after taking 2 hours purely on making this thread
(P.S. if there is anything I might have messed up on please correct me about it)
What do I mean by that?
I mean how many combinations of micro-games could be played and I set out to answer this question
So here's the short answer:
346.135884 Septillion
Now how did I get this number?
well there are around 57 microgames and 6 boss games, I found this by looking through minerware's 3 news threads: the release of minerware had about 35 microgames and 3 boss games (not counting the maze boss game as it was removed), in the first update there was 7 new microgames and 3 boss games, and finally in the most recent update 15 new microgames and no boss games
35 + 7 + 15 = 57 and 3 + 3 + 0 = 6
knowing that, we get into the more advanced math. To calculate the number of possible outcomes per each number you need to do a factorial for that number. For those of you who don't know what a factorial is, it is a 1 x 2 x 3 etc. all the way up to a certain number, except from the number itself going down like 3 x 2 x 1 which would be the factorial of 3
so 57 factorial is exactly 40526919504877216755680601905432322134980384796226602145184481280000000000000
but there is a problem here, there can only be 15 microgames per game, that means we have to solve 57 factorial but only to 15 numbers in
this would mean we are doing 57 x 56 x 55 x 54 x 53 x 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44 x 43
that expression would answer as 28.844657 Septillion
So why are the answers different? well because we aren't taking boss games into account since there will always only be 1 boss game per game of minerware we can just do 6 factorial but only into 1 space which just equals 6
multiplying the amount of microgames by the amount of boss games gives us 28.844657 Septillion x 6 which = 173.067942 Septillion
But that still doesn't match up with the number, that is because we need to have that number multiplied by 2 because hard mode exists so 173.067942 Septillion x 2 = 346.135884 Septillion
35 + 7 + 15 = 57 and 3 + 3 + 0 = 6
knowing that, we get into the more advanced math. To calculate the number of possible outcomes per each number you need to do a factorial for that number. For those of you who don't know what a factorial is, it is a 1 x 2 x 3 etc. all the way up to a certain number, except from the number itself going down like 3 x 2 x 1 which would be the factorial of 3
so 57 factorial is exactly 40526919504877216755680601905432322134980384796226602145184481280000000000000
but there is a problem here, there can only be 15 microgames per game, that means we have to solve 57 factorial but only to 15 numbers in
this would mean we are doing 57 x 56 x 55 x 54 x 53 x 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44 x 43
that expression would answer as 28.844657 Septillion
So why are the answers different? well because we aren't taking boss games into account since there will always only be 1 boss game per game of minerware we can just do 6 factorial but only into 1 space which just equals 6
multiplying the amount of microgames by the amount of boss games gives us 28.844657 Septillion x 6 which = 173.067942 Septillion
But that still doesn't match up with the number, that is because we need to have that number multiplied by 2 because hard mode exists so 173.067942 Septillion x 2 = 346.135884 Septillion
Okay now that you've answered how many possible numbers can be there I don't see what is so amazing about that number well let me try to impress upon you how large this number is
firstly I just want to shine a light on the fact that there are only 31536000 seconds in a year, now minerware has been around since July 16 2016, and there has been 126 days since July 16 2017 meaning that since the game's release there have been 91359792 seconds, if you subtract that from how many possible games that can be played, you'll still be estimating the original number to be the same, it makes that little of a dent in it
meaning if there was 1 game starting every second, we wouldn't even have dented the total amount of possible games we would need to continue playing games of minerware at 1 second per new game starting for another 10.9758969 Quintillion years until we have done all possible combinations
meaning if there was 1 game starting every second, we wouldn't even have dented the total amount of possible games we would need to continue playing games of minerware at 1 second per new game starting for another 10.9758969 Quintillion years until we have done all possible combinations
Now you may be thinking "jollow you aren't taking into account release dates though" but that is what I am about to do
so we have already established minerware came out on July 16 2016 with 35 microgames and 3 boss games now just like in the first large math explanation we need to take the factorial of 35 but only 15 times which would give us 4.24725202 Sextillion, now since there were only 3 boss games multiply that number by 3 which would give us 12.7417561 Sextillion
Now to calculate the time-span between updates, we know the release was July 16 2016 and the first update was October 29 2016 meaning that the time-span between each is 105 days
now a day is 86400 seconds so if we multiply the 2 we get 9072000 seconds between the updates
12.7417561 Sextillion - 9072000 = 12.7417561 Sextillion due to rounding once again
next up was the second update which granted us with 7 more microgames and 3 more boss games
meaning our grand total of each is 42 microgames and 6 boss games
The 42 microgames total would amount to 129.04238 Sextillion which we multiply by 6 for the 6 bossgames which will get us 774.25428 Septillion
Now onto the time-span which is 271 days because the first update was on October 29 2016 and the most recent update was July 26 2017 getting us 271 days
as already stated there are 86400 seconds in a day so 86400 x 271 = 23414400 and if we subtract that from the total number of possible games we get, *drumroll please* the same number of possibilities as before... no surprise there, we are taking these giant numbers and the smaller numbers are unable to do a dent in our total dye to rounding
That means no matter what we would never have had few enough seconds to do it
Now to calculate the time-span between updates, we know the release was July 16 2016 and the first update was October 29 2016 meaning that the time-span between each is 105 days
now a day is 86400 seconds so if we multiply the 2 we get 9072000 seconds between the updates
12.7417561 Sextillion - 9072000 = 12.7417561 Sextillion due to rounding once again
next up was the second update which granted us with 7 more microgames and 3 more boss games
meaning our grand total of each is 42 microgames and 6 boss games
The 42 microgames total would amount to 129.04238 Sextillion which we multiply by 6 for the 6 bossgames which will get us 774.25428 Septillion
Now onto the time-span which is 271 days because the first update was on October 29 2016 and the most recent update was July 26 2017 getting us 271 days
as already stated there are 86400 seconds in a day so 86400 x 271 = 23414400 and if we subtract that from the total number of possible games we get, *drumroll please* the same number of possibilities as before... no surprise there, we are taking these giant numbers and the smaller numbers are unable to do a dent in our total dye to rounding
That means no matter what we would never have had few enough seconds to do it
So yeah, there you have it
now don't mind me while I go rethink my life choices after taking 2 hours purely on making this thread
(P.S. if there is anything I might have messed up on please correct me about it)
