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Originally Posted by DoomYoshi
The devil will always win. If he starts building a moat 1000 squares thick, and he builds it so far away(approx. 100 000 trillion squares away) then the angel won't be able to escape the moat before it is completed.
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Er... The only thing that's been proven in this topic is that what you say is wrong:
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Originally Posted by Japofran
The number of tiles he [the devil] must remove to create a sqare island of side D surrounded by a moat N tiles wide, is 4DN+4N². That takes him an equal number of rounds. In that time the angel can traverse 4DN²+4N³ tiles.
Even if N=1, the angel could traverse 4D+4 tiles by the time the devil builds a moat 1 tile across surrounding a square D tiles across.
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No matter how big you make D, it will only take the devil longer to build, and give the angel more margin.