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Offline Hooman

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« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2009, 01:40:37 PM »
I'm pretty sure the miss/hit rate is the same.

It'd be more reliable info if you just looked at the code.
 

Offline vennom

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« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2009, 02:03:48 PM »
About the crashes, if you spam the function, it will make your game crash (that should be obvious but... im just remembering lol .-.)

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« Reply #27 on: September 27, 2009, 01:17:23 AM »
Hooman, statistics don't always agree with the code, I've found that out :P

There's only a limited number of stubs the game can use for objects (includes anything from beacons to disasters. Yes, units, buildings too), and overflowing causes the game to crash.
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« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2009, 03:02:03 PM »
Well, statistics do have that degree of randomness in them. If your measured values are way off from what the code suggests it should be, it's probably just a matter of you having much too small of a sample space to get and accurate reading of the real probabilities.

Consider the error of a sample space of 1. Event A happens 90% of the time, and event B happens 10% of the time, according to the code. If you try once, and get B, and then conclude that B happens 100% of the time, based on your findings, well..., maybe you need to try a larger sample space. In fact, since 9/10 is a reduced fraction, you can't actually get the real answer without a sample space of at least 10, and even then it's unlikely to be exact for most trials. You'd need a much larger sample space to get an approximation to within 1/10 of the real answer consistently.

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« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2009, 01:56:17 AM »
I assumed people know how to do a statistic...

Bad thinking on my part, I guess?
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« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2010, 08:31:33 PM »
Can you add a earthquake all those need is an x and y concordant right?



edit:the link is dead


sorry i just realized that i double posted. deleting it now
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« Reply #31 on: August 20, 2011, 06:52:36 AM »
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the link is dead
here, not sure how long it'll last though.

edit: hah, just realized how old this post is. Man, I really need to wake up...
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Offline Lugia3

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« Reply #32 on: September 26, 2011, 04:18:51 PM »
Can someone provide a working link? The brazilian link is broken and so is the mediafire link.