Errors in the Culture Book

[Choinski, Burt]

> Scott Cohan [SMTP:scott.cohan at SSA.GOV] notes:
> ||  Inspired by Burt's random starting culture table, I decided to
> make a Lotus
> ||  1-2-3 spreadsheet to do this for me, including the city and tribal
> information
>
> I'd be interested in the result, although I'll have to convert it to
> an excell sheet.
>
> ||  as well, when I ran across two mathematical errors in the Culture
> Book.
> ||  A'Korchu is listed as having a total population of 1,133,000.
> However, if you
> ||  actually add all of the city, colony and rural populations, you
> arrive at
> ||  1,143,000.
> ||  Similarly, Katai should be 1,040,000 instead of 1,050,000.
>
> They were a bit behind the ball on some of their proofing. :)
>
> ||  Perhaps this is due to the great summoning ritual, performed in
> A'Korchu many
> ||  years ago, at the last Festival of Death, which summoned 10,000
> Katai citizens
> ||  instead of an avatar of Ahriman.
>
> Boy, wern't they suprised!
>     -- Burton
>
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> Burton Choinski, Peritus Software Services Inc.
> bchoinski at peritus.com
>
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