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In _Steins;Gate_ there is much ado about the Divergence Number of the current
world line. But if I am remembering correctly, the meter Kyouma
made/carries/is given shows the difference between the current world line and
the "previous" one—which I understood to be the one Okabe was in immediately
before his last time jump.

Does the Divergence Number work relative to the last time jump–originating
world line, or relative to the world line where it was constructed (the world
line where SERN maintains a dystopia)?


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How are the Divergence Number and world line related?


In Steins;Gate there is an important thing called Attractor Field. An
Attractor field is a number of world lines that may be slightly different from
each other in small details, but provide the same end result.

Each attractor field is "made of" a number of World lines, in some range. For
example, the Alpha Attractor Field contains world lines with the divergence
from 0% to 0.99%, the Beta Attractor has world lines from 1% to 1.99% and so
on.

Thus, the divergence meter is not showing some relative value, but rather an
absolute value which is used to determine the Attractor field that the current
World Line belongs to.

[Source.](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Attractor_Field)


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