THe second one, what you described Ellias, is far too low of a number.
Ben Camden Year 14 Day 68 3:45
Wrong order of operations....
1. (flats^2)
2. then, do the natural logarithm on the number of flats
3. then, multiple answer 1 and 2
4. then, add flats.
Ln(Flats) is a single operator.
Ellias Aubec Year 14 Day 68 3:09
Just trying to fix up my spreadsheet, and noticed something wierd with the population equation:
BP = (Ln (Flats) x (Flats)^2) + (Flats)
Now, to me this means this order of operations:
(flats^2)
then, multiple that answer by flats (in effect flats ^3)
then, do the natural logarithm on that number
then, add flats.
If we use the ~1400 flats for my planet this gives:
Now this is a ridiculous number - the population should be around 19mil. Now am I misunderstanding something there (I think not), or has it been incorrectly put into the rules page? From fiddling around it seems that this fits the numbers better:
