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July 25th, 2003, 02:02 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
Which you will be doing by hand using the SE4 map editor?
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July 25th, 2003, 02:10 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
Well, keep in mind that in the system maps background each of those white or grey specks is a star as well.
I never counted them. Nor do they have impact on the game...
Why am I posting this?
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July 25th, 2003, 08:15 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
Maybe for SE5, he could make the map infinite in size. You start off with a small map as usual, but when you explore the systems at the edges, more systems are added to the perimeter of the map, so that the galaxy expands. The more you explore, the more the outer envelope expands. The systems will be randomly created at the fringes as you explore further and further out.
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July 25th, 2003, 09:30 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
ANyone remember Frontier: Elite II? That had about a squillion consistent systems in it (and each system had planets, and each planet had terrain). And all that from a 880k floppy in my Amiga 500!
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July 25th, 2003, 09:34 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
hmm.. how much is it Squillion?
OFF TOPIC what are the names for higher numbers anyways? its Million, Billion...?
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July 25th, 2003, 09:53 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
trillion.
and there's a googal to, but i forget how large that is. mathematician's son came up with that. sounds about right for a really big number.
[ July 25, 2003, 08:55: Message edited by: Narf'scompatshop ]
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July 25th, 2003, 09:56 AM
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Re: Star survey reaches 70 sextillion
Quote:
Originally posted by Taera:
OFF TOPIC what are the names for higher numbers anyways? its Million, Billion...?
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10^3: Thousand; 10^6: Million; 10^9: Billion; 10^12: Trillion ...
... By one definition of the words, anyway.
Check the italics; they're numbers (or nearly so - I could be a letter off in highlighting them, or there could have been some warp to it over time) in Latin (or is it Greek?) Mi: one; Bi: two; Tri: three. Multiply the matching number by three, add three, and you get the number of zero's that follow a one to get that cardinal number. In theory, you can learn to count in Greek (or is it Latin?) and go as high as you like in that fashion, but it quickly becomes easier to use scientific notation, so almost nobody uses the standard Version for cardinals above a trillion.
[ July 25, 2003, 08:56: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]
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