Re: Newbie question

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From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@sympatico.ca>
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Newbie question
Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 7:06 PM

On Thu, 01 Oct 1998 16:23:08 -0500, Andy Akins <igor@ames.net> wrote:

>I'm writing (like many of you have) a spreadsheet program to build
ships
>using the system in the Fleet Book. Once I made it, I decided to test
it,
>using the example ship given in the design section. I come up short on
one
>item: the example gives the Screen-1 mass as being 5, whereas I figure
it
to
>be four.

I can't find my copy of the Fleet Book errata. It's possible that this
is
an
error. I checked my own spreadsheet, which I used to help Jon work out
the
Fleet Book values, and my spreadsheet calculates it as a mass of 4, too.

Allan Goodall	       agoodall@sympatico.ca

"We come into the world and take our chances
 Fate is just the weight of circumstances
 That's the way that Lady Luck dances
 Roll the bones." - N. Peart
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It was a typo and it is on the FB errata.  The mass should be four.

Chad