A while ago, Dan Pearcy approached me with a similar problem, asking for the inverse formula to convert $n$ into coordinates $(x,y)$. Using the floor function, it was not too difficult to provide an explicit closed form. He wrote a blog post about this, including my extremely messy closed form:

http://danpearcymaths.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/infinity-programming-in-geogebra-and-failing-miserably/

A while ago, Dan Pearcy approached me with a similar problem, asking for the inverse formula to convert $n$ into coordinates $(x,y)$. Using the floor function, it was not too difficult to provide an explicit closed form. He wrote a blog post about this, including my extremely messy closed form:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141202041502/https://danpearcymaths.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/infinity-programming-in-geogebra-and-failing-miserably/