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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel Butler: [QB] I never understood the point-of-origin anyway. Why do you need 6 spatial coordinates to define the endpoint, but only one symbol to define the beginning? If the positional data can be encoded into a single glyph, why aren't all the gate addresses just two chevrons, destination and origin? And if the gate system can keep track of all its neighbors and so forth, why have such a weird constellation-based system at all? Why would the Ancients use *constellations* as addresses? Why not just some numerical address similar to an IP identifying a particular gate? Even if you want to identify the general region of space and connect with a gate if there is one there, why not use a more precise altitude/azimuth or latitude/longitude system, or some other more advanced system? (All of this seemed especially weird in the movie, where there were, apparently, *only two gates.* Why have addresses at all in that case?) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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