Random factoid

[pne]

Apparently, the maximum number of Aspiration points that a Sim can have is 327'670.

(This tidbit from a chat transcript where someone talks about "the mystical Significance of [this number]"; the official answer is "That number holds a special place in all of our hearts…." I can think of another plausible explanation….)

Hm... I need a Sims 2 icon.

Comments

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

327'670

Is that meant to be "three hundred twenty seven thousand, six hundred seventy"? I ask because I've never seen an apostrophe used to separate numbers that way.

(And what is the other plausible explanation? I'm curious now. =) )

[pne.livejournal.com]

Is that meant to be "three hundred twenty seven thousand, six hundred seventy"?

Indeed.

I ask because I've never seen an apostrophe used to separate numbers that way.

I'm not sure where I picked it up, but I think it might by Swiss style.

I like it because it's fairly unambiguous; English uses a thousands comma and German a thousands dot, and each language uses the opposite sign as a decimal mark. But I can't recall seeing an apostrophe used for anything besides thousands. (Hm... except maybe octal numbers in TeX.)

(And what is the other plausible explanation? I'm curious now. =) )

Well, Aspirations tend to have point rewards that are a multiple of 10 (probably a multiple of 50, even), so you needn't store the exact value: to save space, you could store the point total divided by ten.

And the maximum number that fits in a signed 16-bit integer is 32767... which looks oddly similar to the maximum number above.

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

Urm, just noticed you didn't credit me on that icon I made for you :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

So I didn't! Apologies; fixed now. Please accept my apologies for the oversight.

[pthalo]

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bleh, should've used <pre&gr; the first time!

[pthalo]

i suck! but the &gr; was a typo.

Greek

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall you being able to speak Greek to some degree, so I thought you were as good a person as any to ask how to say "Merry Christmas + Happy New Year" (or something like that) in Greek. I've checked various websites, and they all have different things (which I suppose is partly due to translating between the Greek and Roman alphabets), so I figured it was best to ask a real live person, and you're the only one I know that speaks any Greek! Thanks!

Re: Greek

[pne.livejournal.com]

I'd say «Καλά Χριστούγεννα και Καλή Χρονιά!» (ka-LAH khris-TOO-yen-nah keh ka-LEE khro-NYAH).

However, a quick google implies that there are a bunch of ways to say "Happy New Year" including «ευτυχισμένο το Νέο Έτος» and «ευτυχισμένος ο καινούριος χρόνος» (and a more archaic form «ευτυχές το Νέον Έτος»), as well as «Καλή Προτωχρονιά».

Re: Greek

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks a lot! Lets see how long it takes me to copy that out onto a Christmas card!:D