In StarGate, how many gate addresses can there possibly be?!
Question: Well, there are a total of 39 symbols (based upon a quick web search), and each address is seven symbols. So you'd use a binomial coefficient, where n=39 and k=7. So you have 39!/(7!*32!) = (yikes!) 15,380,937. That number increases if you add the eighth symbol for other galaxies.
Answers: Well, there are a total of 39 symbols (based upon a quick web search), and each address is seven symbols. So you'd use a binomial coefficient, where n=39 and k=7. So you have 39!/(7!*32!) = (yikes!) 15,380,937. That number increases if you add the eighth symbol for other galaxies.
More important than how many actual addresses can there be is how many stargates are there and in which galaxy. Known gates differ between the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies. Also, stargates can actually move and be reprogramed with different addresses so technically the answer would be that there is an infinite number of addresses however it is stated that not all points in space represented by these addresses have stargates, in fact, there are sufficiently few valid coordinate sets that randomly dialing the stargates would be largely futile.
This is a really good question. At the risk of sounding like Jack I must answer your question by saying I don't have a clue, but there must be a lot!!! You can look at it numericlly but think of how many planets there are and that is where my answer lays.