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very geeky question about Eve's coordinate system

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Soldarius
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#41 - 2014-12-17 15:36:47 UTC
Sabriz Adoudel wrote:
Primary This Rifter wrote:
Distance in meters on the scale of New Eden could be represented with unsigned 64 bit integers. 100 light years is on the order of 10^18 meters, whereas 2^64 is on the order of 10^19.



IIRC the wormhole systems are located a couple of thousand LY away from the main New Eden cluster, according to extensive testing that was done a while ago. So that might cause issues.



"31000005" "5" "5" "21000324" "11000031" "7201177000000000000" "1534300000000000000" "-9501332482538404000" "3112788232446.856" "Thera" "-0.99"

The 3 longest numbers are the x, y, and z coordinates. Of note, I would like to point out that every w-space system has 3 zeros on the end of its x and z coords. Multiplying their distances by 1000 was an interesting and very easy way of keeping w-space separate from k-space.

Also interestingly enough, Thera is located a bit away from the rest of Anoikis. Most w-space systems have x cord starting with 76x...

http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
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