Thank you
No, someone sent me invalid keys and I am trying to recognize them among others.
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im sitting on like 20 keys, im not gonna dig deep but your post made me interested in looking. i can confirm my keys contain no S,U, or 1. i did see zeros
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For anyone on SG that has won a lot of games and wants to look through a large list of keys, just go to your won page here and all the keys you won are listed.
You can use the find on page function of your browser to highlight all instances of something on the page and check each page of keys.
Edit: Done. I checked all letters and numbers against the almost 300 Steam keys I have won here and these are the results.
Confirmed characters used in Steam keys:
A through N
P through R
T
V through Z
numbers 2-9 and 0
O, S, U, and 1 are not in any of my almost 300 keys.
It actually wasn't that difficult since all the characters that are used showed in keys on the first page and I only had to go through the full 7 pages to verify that each missing character didn't show up anywhere.
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Yeah, that does seem odd, but it is definitely missing. I just double checked and it is not in any of my keys. Maybe they had an issue with U and V looking similar on printed codes back in the 90s when you buy a physical product and have to activate it with the code. They might have got rid of it back then and just never used it again.
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Yes, the U and V looked very similar with the dot-matrix style printing they used to use back then when they included the key printed on a card in the box or jewel case of a B&M bought game. Especially when it is not printed completely straight due to high-speed printing.
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if they went down to 32 then that could be the case, but you still need enough bits for 1-64 in order to handle 1-36 always encoded as the same number of bits.
base 2 converts easily to and from other number bases that are powers of 2, not just any even number. that's why hexadecimal (base 16) and base64 are common. octal (base 8) also works but you don’t see that much outside of the chmod command.
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Also, this old discussion has some good info, for the curious.
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/qVJ3U/how-many-steam-keys-are-possible
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Hello,
I know there exist some special codes, but when I consider only the most common type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX what digits and letters steam code does not include. I am sure with O and 1. Maybe S? What else?
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