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Originally Posted by synthozoic
Or maybe I'm just overthinking this?
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I'd prefer if they named them "Not Our Reality #1" "Not Our Reality #2" "Bob" "Not Our Reality #3" and so on.
Oooh, ooh! Can we name one Universe "Fluffy" ?
I like "Fluffy" much better than "Praetoria"
Maybe this should be a new thread, a petition to rename Praetoria...
While it easily could have some algorithm behind the naming scheme, without more information that just the names themselves, you really are over-thinking it. Going just by the names, it looks like just a regular-old catalog system of letters and numbers, just like I use at work.
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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So Portal Corporation has a method of the naming universes they discover. But how do you think this naming system works?
It goes: [Greek letter] [Greek letter] [decimal number]-[decimal number]
Is this merely locational and numbering scheme? For example, the Greek letters and Arabic numbers might something like the method of locating stars with right ascension and declination on the celestial sphere. You just point your portal generator in that direction and tune it a bit until the universe in question locks into view and passage is granted.
Or is it a more complicated scheme like the binomial classification of organisms, where the first part of the name locates the genus and the second part of the name gives the species. Perhaps the first part of the system classifies the universe based on it variation from Paragon Earth's history and the second part is merely a unique number assigned to the universe in question.
Or maybe I'm just overthinking this?
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