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HL
CD Key Generator!
By Chris Clark
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That's right! For those of you with pirated versions of this very popular
first person shooter, Half Life, you need CD Keys. Now you can generate
your own!
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WARNING:
Chances
of finding a CD Key with this system are statistically so small
that anyone in their right mind would round the percentage to zero.
This device spits out random numbers and doesn't test them online
or anything, and it's not supposed to. If you thought this was a
legitimate CD Key Generator, sorry to burst your bubble. Read on
and realize how much satire this really is.
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You can use this
page over and over to find as many (invalid) CD
Keys for Half Life as you want. Here's a brief statement on how this amazing
device works!
We all
know that HL CD keys are composed of strings of numbers (0-9) and letters
(A-Z). However, we DON'T know how long the key is supposed to be. Let's
assume the key is as long or shorter than 25 characters.
Now, we
here at the Reality Syndicate have created a random generator using JavaScript.
Here's a breakdown of the number of possible CD Keys for the length of
the string, assuming the key can be made of numbers 0-9 and letters AZ:
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1 character |
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36
possibilities
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2 characters |
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1,296
possibilities
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3 characters |
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46,656
possibilities
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4 characters |
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1,679,616
possibilities
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5 characters |
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60,466,176
possibilities
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6 characters |
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2,176,782,336
possibilities
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7 characters |
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78,364,164,096
possibilities
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8 characters |
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2,821,109,907,460
possibilities
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9 characters |
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101,559,956,668,000
possibilities
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10 characters |
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3,656,158,440,060,000
possibilities
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11 characters |
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131
quintillion possibilities
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12 characters |
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4.74
sextillion possibilities
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13 characters |
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171
sextillion possibilities
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14 characters |
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6.14
septillion possibilities
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15 characters |
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221
septillion possibilities
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16 characters |
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7.96
octillion possibilities
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17 characters |
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287
octillion possibilities
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18 characters |
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10.3
nonillion possibilities
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19 characters |
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371
nonillion possibilities
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20 characters |
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13.4
decillion possibilities
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21 characters |
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481
decillion possibilities
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22 characters |
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17.3
undecillion possibilities
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23 characters |
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624
undecillion possibilities
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24 characters |
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22.5
duodecillion possibilities
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25 characters |
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808
duodecillion possibilities
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Now,
since you probably don't know the exact length of what a CD Key is supposed
to be, lets go ahead and add all of these numbers up, since you'll have
to try all lengths, probably.
Our total
is: 831.375 duodecillion, or:
831,375,028,249,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities.
Hypothetically,
if you decided to try all of these possibilities, and you were able to
attempt one every second, non stop, until you were finished, it would
take you 26,362,728,310,500,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 26.3
nonillion years.
Scientists
now believe the Earth to be about 4 billion years old, and the universe
itself about 20 billion years old. If the universe is actually 20 billion
years old and it were to end and begin again right now, and each new universe
lasting for 20 billion years, it would take you 13,118,136,415,530,000,000,000
or 13 sextillion universes to finish.
Better
put on a pot of coffee!
Enjoy
attempting to play pirated Half Life.
-Chris Clark
( click
here to email the author )
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