Re: Galaxy

From: rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:50:08 +0000

In <28SEP199207381324@zeus.tamu.edu> mrh0631@zeus.tamu.edu (Mark Hesidence) writes:

>  Would someone be kind enough to e-mail or post the combat equation
>  for galaxy traslated into C or FORTRAN.  Due to a recent massacre of
>  my ships I no longer trust program I wrote.

Well, this is the source code for a program I wrote to calculate the
probability of ship type A killing ship type B at equal tech levels:

#include	<stdio.h>
#include	<stdlib.h>
#include	<math.h>

main (int argc,char **argv)
{
	double weapons,shields,size;

if (argc != 4)
	{
		printf ("Program to calculate probability of one Galaxy
ship killing another\n"
				  "by Russell Wallace  9 September
1992\n"
				  "Usage: KILLPROB weapon-strength
shield-strength size\n"
				  "This program is in the public
domain\n");
		return 1;
	}
	weapons = atof (argv[1]);
	shields = atof (argv[2]);
	size = atof (argv[3]);
	printf ("%lf\n",(log (weapons / (shields / pow (size,1.0/3.0) *
pow (30,1.0/3.0))) / log (4) + 1) / 2);
	return 0;
}

--
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie

References

Galaxy
mrh0631@zeus.tamu.edu (Mark Hesidence)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 12:38:00 +0000