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Default Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)

That might make sense, it would be pretty easy to get implemented in a for/while-loop. A better word may be concentric (quarter)circles than a spiral, if you want to be exact.
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Default Re: Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)

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That might make sense, it would be pretty easy to get implemented in a for/while-loop. A better word may be concentric (quarter)circles than a spiral, if you want to be exact.
What they are basically doing (in my opinion)

A: Trunc (SQRT(units in formation))
B Form square

x..
...
1.x where x is the trunc'd sqrt.

C. Fill remaining:

The way to test this is to build 16of one unit, then 1 each of other units.
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