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.

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[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.