Re: [FT] OFFICIAL RULING REQUEST (was Re: Couple of questions)

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
[snip]
> This is wrong. I'm not sure where you went wrong, but if you ignore
the
> PDS re-rolls in your matrix below you'll find that on average 103/36 =
> 2.861 missiles manage to lock on and get past the single PDS;
2.861*3.5 =
> 10.014. I'd find it very strange if the PDS re-rolls *increase* the
> damage :-/

[Sigh]	Sign inversion again;  I'll redo the math with the correct
polarity
this time.  I *told* you it's been a while since statistics - I guess I
lost
more grey matter than I thought when I passed the '40' milestone a few
years
back .:)

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