Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] Glotmorf votes

["Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 Mar 2005 at 23:17, Daniel Lepage wrote:

> 
> Glotmorf's votes:
> 
> > Proposal 2018/1: Witchcraft                               : Shelve
> > The proposal doesn't say anything about integer values.  Do we
> > really want to start working with probabilities of 1.05/6? (Yes, we
> > can do this by shifting to the left of the decimal and rolling a
> > 600-sided die, but that's just for level 2; at level 3 it's 1.1025,
> > and I'd feel silly rolling a 60000-sider.)
> 
> Where are you getting 1.05/6? You can only have technologies at
> integer levels, so N is always an integer; then ((N-1)%5) + 1 is
> always an integer too. We should never need a d-sixty-thousand.

Technologies may be integers, but that doesn't mean you get an integer when you 
take 5% of it.  You don't say that (N-1)%5 is an integer, so at level 2 it's .05, and (N-
1)%5)+1 is 1.05.  All ya gotta say is that it's (N-1)%5 rounded down.

-- Glotmorf

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