Why is that amazing? Also, you will never have 246 quadrillion blocks saved in your world's save folder.
The seed and algorithm determines what they are, so in a way they're already there. But yeah, you're not going to have the areas and each individual block saved.
I think they're just impressed with how big the world is.
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While we're on the subject of larger than usual numbers, I find it kind of interesting that my computer has done over 4.48 quintillion (4,480,000,000,000,000,000) floating-point operations for BOINC so far in its spare time in the background. It's kind of relevant, because a lot of this was done while playing Minecraft and hosting a server for it.
The seed and algorithm determines what they are, so in a way they're already there. But yeah, you're not going to have the areas and each individual block saved.
I think they're just impressed with how big the world is.
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While we're on the subject of larger than usual numbers, I find it kind of interesting that my computer has done over 4.48 quintillion (4,480,000,000,000,000,000) floating-point operations for BOINC so far in its spare time in the background. It's kind of relevant, because a lot of this was done while playing Minecraft and hosting a server for it.
OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 64bit, Debian GNU/Linux 64bit | CPU: Intel i7-3930K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 WS | RAM: Corsair Dominator 64GB Quad Channel DDR3 @ 1600MHz (8×8GB DIMMS) | Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan Black Superclocked @ 1124MHz (×2, SLI) | Power: Corsair AX1200 (1200W, 100.4A @ 12V) | Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D | Cooling: Corsair H110, NOCTUA NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM (×5) | Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SATA III SSD (system drive), Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA III HDD (media, backups), Western Digital My Passport 2TB USB 3.0 External HDD (backups) | Optical: Sony Optiarc Internal 12x Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-03 | Display: Sony Bravia 46" 1920×1080
This computer's BOINC Stats: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/detail/165430523