Re: formulas

From: Leonardo Herrera L. (leherrer@ENTELCHILE.NET)
Date: 08/26/98


George wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Edward J Glamkowski wrote:
>
> >Using Excel, I got the following polynomial equation
> >for the MU para saving throw:
> >6e-8x^6 + 1e-5x^5 - 0.0011x^4 + 0.0321x^3 - 0.3929x^2 +
> >0.5694x + 69.455
> >
> >Which was actually a really good fit... ;)
>
> I sure hope so for something as convoluted as that. :)
>
> 16 of 23 (69%) of people say to just forget the table, so if you have to
> munge the table a bit to make it fit better, do so.

I use a formula too (with pow() and log() everywhere), but the way I do
this is initializing a table with the values from the formula at startup
(obviously, I haven't titles in this table :) )

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