# How to distinguish r8-r64 without notebook or good brain

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**Created:** [February 11, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-distinguish-r8-r64-without-notebook-or-good-brain/476501 "2025-02-11T16:01:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-distinguish-r8-r64-without-notebook-or-good-brain/476501/3 "2025-02-14T15:06:25Z")

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It’s quite disturbing that we are calling the ore r4, r8, r16, r32 and r64 ore rather then ubiquitous, common, uncommon, rare and exceptional though.

The information dialog for Monazite is titled `Exceptional Moon Ore`, the dialog for Exceptional Mining Crystals lists the names of the ores that can be mined with it, but if you ask people what moon they have on their station they won’t say `rare and ubiquitous` but `r32 and r4`…

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