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I'm just listing things Suzuha explained in episode 14:

> 1\. There is divergence meter which numerically explains the current world.  
>  2\. To make big changes you need to go beyond the 1% divergence to a beta
> world.  
>  3\. Divergence meter shows values between 0%..100%

putting all these together we might assume there are only 100 possible
distinct worlds, aka. only 100 possible futures. Is this assumption right or
am I missing something?


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Are there only 100 possible futures?


It's worth remembering that Suzuha comes from the future, but she only knows
what is known by people in the future α world line. In fact, some of that
turns out not to be entirely correct, or at least it's misleading.

In any case, it depends on what you mean by "future". Two different futures
can have the same, or very close, divergence numbers. This is evidenced by the
fact that Mayuri died in many different ways, yet the divergence number didn't
change (at least not appreciably). While these are different futures in the
near term, they all converge to the same end result, at least as long as they
are still on a world line close to the α (alpha) world line. This is what is
meant by the [Attractor Field](http://steins-
gate.wikia.com/wiki/Attractor_Field).

The divergence number measures how much the world line has deviated from a
particular value. To reach the β (beta) world line, they need to get to a
divergence number between 1% and 1.99%, and again there's an attractor field
so that any world lines in this range converge to the same eventual future.
There are also γ, δ, and ω world lines in the visual novel and drama CDs, and
of course the

> Steins Gate world line.

As for the particular values for divergence number, many are present. The
divergence meter has been shown to change by as little as 0.000001%, which
would allow for at least 100,000,000 world lines, and for all we know these
numbers were just approximate anyway so there could be infinitely many (since
they are only quoted to that many significant digits). We can't really say for
sure either way, but most of those world lines end up being very close to each
other in the end.

From the above link, the known values are:

α:

> 0.571046  
>  0.571024  
>  0.571015  
>  0.523307  
>  0.523299  
>  0.456914  
>  0.456903  
>  0.409431  
>  0.409420  
>  0.334581  
>  0.337187

β:

> 1.130238  
>  1.130205  
>  1.129848  
>  1.130212  
>  1.130211  
>  1.130209  
>  1.130208  
>  1.130206  
>  1.130205

γ

> 2.615074

Divergence numbers are unknown for the δ world line.

ω

> .275349 (said to be negative, so maybe it's actually -.275349)

And the spoilery one:

> Steins Gate  
>  1.048596

So, depending on how you look at it, there are lots of possible futures (maybe
infinitely many), but eventually all of them converge to one of these 6 (as
far as we know). There could be more that are revealed later, but based on
what is known right now, these are the only 6 possible long-term futures.


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