ackanomic Digest Wednesday, March 03 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 060 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: K 2 Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 4106 Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:34:22 -0500 (EST) #retract 4106 #end One of those days I guess :/ K 2 wrote: > **Brain Wave*** > I just realised that the Dragon's stats are do not have the same > distribution as player's > > The dragons stats : 1d10 + 10 > player stats: 3d6 > > In my calculations test rolls of both parties were 3d6, so it was in > error: > > I should've use a normal distribution with mean -5 and standard > deviation SQRT(17) (the difference between a 3d6 distribution > (u=10.5,s=sqrt(8.75)) and a 1d10+10(u=15.5,s=sqrt(8.25)) - negative > values in this distribution represent circumstances where the Dragon has > a higher test roll. I see were I've gone wrong: firggin sign error. My distribution was Rp-Rd (player's roll minus Dradon's Roll), but I attempted to use it as the revese :/ current best rescue chance is ~52% current worst is ~2% (maybe :-) K 2 ------------------------------ From: K 2 Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 4112 Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:36:18 -0500 (EST) #retract 4112 #end retract this one then ackabot@ackanomic.org wrote: > Proposal 4112 > Towie Cneoix > K 2 > Due: Tue Mar 9 11:06:19 1999 ------------------------------ From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 4116 Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 19:10:28 -0500 (EST) #retract 4116 #silent #end I'll fix the ='s and resubmit >Proposal 4116 -- -Henry Towsner Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. -Logan Pearsall Smith ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Acka: AWOL (Studge) Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 22:51:48 -0500 (EST) K 2 has pointed out that Studge has gone AWOL. --JT -- [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Acka: AWOL -> Vacation Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 22:53:01 -0500 (EST) The following players did not respond to the AWOL query and thus are placed on vacation with an EDR of 3 days. WoHo Calvin N Hobbes 404 Not Found r-attila the farce two-star Since WoHo never voted, he immediately goes On Ice. --JT -- [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ End of ackanomic Digest V4 #60 ******************************