Personality value: Difference between revisions

A Pokémon's '''personality value''' is an {{wp|Signedness|unsigned}} {{wp|32-bit}} {{wp|Integer (computer science)|integer}} that is created when the Pokémon is first encountered; it is set as soon as the Pokémon appears in the wild, the Pokémon's Egg is received from the {{pkmn|Day Care}} man or another [[Non-player character|NPC]], or the Pokémon itself is received from an NPC.  As an unsigned 32-bit integer, its value can be anywhere between 0, which is represented as 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, thirty-two zeroes in binary, and 4,294,967,295, represented as 11,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,111,111, thirty-two ones in binary, inclusive. This value was introduced with the [[Pokémon data structure in the GBA|Pokémon data structure]] overhaul that occurred at the start of [[Generation III]], and is generated using the games' [[Pseudorandom number generation in Pokémon|pseudorandom number generator]].