Problem

Source: Australia MO 2024 P4

Tags: combinatorics



Consider a $2024 \times 2024$ grid of unit squares. Two distinct unit squares are adjacent if they share a common side. Each unit square is to be coloured either black or white. Such a colouring is called $\textit{evenish}$ if every unit square in the grid is adjacent to an even number of black unit squares. Determine the number of $\textit{evenish}$ colourings.