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The procedurally generated universe in Elite [1] contained 8 galaxies and each galaxy had 256 planets. They were all generated from a single seed number.

Interestingly, they artificially limited the number of galaxies as theoretically they could have 2^48 of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)




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