Nice, Andrew. Excellent work. Its always good when someone else does the dirty work to make things easier for everyone : ) Ibrahim Andrew Janssen wrote: >Thank goodness for the internet! I found a website that does all the >nasty calculation of exponential regression for me. Army sizes in >Celandra can be approximately calculated using the formula: > >y = 16.2645x^0.518867 > >or, if you're in a hurry and just want a quick'n'dirty number, > >y = 16 * squareroot(x) > >where x is the population of the country and y is the nominal army size. >The equation doesn't *quite* fit for x > 200,000,000 or so, but for most > MidSea countries, it should work adequately. > >Andrew > >Andrew Janssen wrote: > > >>I'm trying to work out some sort of equation, such that you can plug >>your population number into it and get your nominal army size out. >>Unfortunately for me, the military% changes nonlinearly, and it's been >>seven years since I took calculus. I can tell from plotting the existing >>points that any such equation would involve exponential functions, but >>like I said, my math is really rusty. >> >>Anyone out there with decent math skills? I can probably figure it out >>if I bang my head against it often enough, but I'd like to spare myself >>as much pain as possible. >> >>Andrew >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net. >> >> >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
