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Sean Mirrsen

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Re: Alphanumeric Seeds
« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2008, 05:26:11 am »
It would make more seeds easier to remember. How many numbers you usually keep memorized? You phone number, zip code, maybe some passport or similar document series and number, but there aren't usually a lot. You can remember quite a lot more names, and you can make much more personal worlds with alphanumeric seeds, for example for yourself, your family, your town, your country, your planet, your favorite movies, your least favorite movies, etc, etc.
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Draco18s

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Re: Alphanumeric Seeds
« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2008, 05:47:57 pm »
Student ID
Cell Phone
Bank PIN
Laptop express service code (yes, 20950468777 is my dell express service code--and no, I don't mind sharing, my warranty expired)
Home phone
Apartment zip code
Home zip code
Credit Card (though I can't get mine to stick.  xxxx xxxx xxxx 0046....holy crap, I did it, took a minute and I did X it out so I don't leak it, oh and can't forget the special code on the back!  xxx!).
Social security number

I've got 10 right now.
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Calessa Lynn Orphiel

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Re: Alphanumeric Seeds
« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2008, 06:11:37 pm »
The number of phone numbers I have memorized is staggering.  It's not up to par with my vocabulary, but really --

Why are you using such simple things?  The odds of the most interesting worlds being on seeds that are so tidy are extremely low.  I don't go entering random numbers for this reason, I just take note of seeds that generated interesting worlds, and use those later.

Not that any list is going to be useful in just a day or two  =p
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Granite26

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Re: Alphanumeric Seeds
« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2008, 06:14:58 pm »
Quote from: Calessa Lynn Orphiel on July 13, 2008, 06:11:37 pm
Not that any list is going to be useful in just a day or two  =p

That's given me the mental image of huge distributed computing networks, cranking out seed after seed after seed's worth of worlds, looking for the 'perfect one'  (Think SETI at home)
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Calessa Lynn Orphiel

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Re: Alphanumeric Seeds
« Reply #19 on: July 13, 2008, 07:47:51 pm »
Haha, that would be kinda cool, but really disturbing.  Toady should develop an extra tool that can be run in the background that runs a world-gen using networked computing power -- have the dimensions be 1000x the current largest world size -- and see what happens.
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Re: Alphanumeric Seeds
« Reply #20 on: July 13, 2008, 10:25:02 pm »
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How many numbers you usually keep memorized?

Many.  Physical constants are important to engineers...and nerds...and nerds in engineering. 
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Re: Alphanumeric Seeds
« Reply #21 on: July 13, 2008, 11:13:46 pm »
Quote from: Draco18s on July 13, 2008, 05:47:57 pm
I've got 10 right now.

Oh yes, I forgot, the door code to the local gaming group's office.
Pi, pi is a good number (3.1415926535...93 I think, ah no, the 93 is later.  ...89793).
Square root of 2 (1.4142 or so)
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