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Anonymous
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You're overestimating. 38^6 is the number of possible ways of choosing six signs. However, the signs represent points in space with the destination being the point at the center. Since we need six distinct points, we can't repeat any of the signs in the gate address, so that limits us to 36_P_6 combinations (or 38!/32!). Also, reordering the six gate symbols will either return the same destination point or won't produce any point at all, so we can discount the permutations as well. Now we're down to 38_C_6 (38!/32!/6!), which is around 2.7 million possible gate addresses.
Of course, there's no good geometric reasons why the point of origin can't also be one of the points helping to locate the destination. This bumps us up to 39_C_6, or 3.2 million addresses.
Needless to say, adding in eight symbol galactic gate addresses makes all this math worthless.
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