Could someone explain:

[Taqwus]

Kilo-Ohm:

You're correct. If Aaron were to use 16-bit numbers, he could arbitrarily set a limit of, say, 512 systems, or in fact whatever number he chooses between 0 and 65,535 inclusive. Of course, if he uses any quadratic-order storage (such as an adjacency matrix, but I don't see why he would when the connectivity is limited to 10 per), doubling the system limit still means multipling storage by four. *shrug*

I'd hate to go through the colonies of 100+ captured systems looking for facilities to convert to monoliths, or to add computers, or so forth. Aigh. Please, not without adding text input/output so I can write scripts to input commands. ;-)

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