[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 142, Issue 5

[Scott Adams]

Yeah I have no clue why the US did this 'new math' garbage in the 80s?
Just confusing.


At 11:48 AM 10/16/2017, you wrote:
>Hmmmmm....believe it or not, there are three ways of rounding in 
>mathematics...and they all have their own symbols.  Something I just 
>learned about.
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>Round...this usually means that you round 21.5 to 22....the way most 
>of us probably learned in school.  HOWEVER....depending on the 
>situation, such as wanting a conservative bias in your statistical 
>results, you might round to 21.  Yes...arbitrary, but what isn't these days?
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>Round Up is a specific mathematical operation where the number is 
>rounded up to the nearest significant figure you have 
>designated.  In our PnP situation, this means the next 
>integer.  So....10.00000000003 rounds up to 11.  That's how all the 
>"RU" situations are handled.  For example, calculating HPV...the 
>original printed rules included a table showing that 21.25 rounded up to 22.
>
>Round Down is just the opposite...where the 10.99999999999997 rounds 
>down to 10.
>
>Keep in mind, this is how excel also works...and why there are three 
>different formulae commands for rounding.  For all I know there are 
>even more.  I ain't no mathematician.
>
>Dave
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> >> The rounding two different ways is for a reason.  In the round up
> >> method, Richard's Way, it's usually to provide the player with some
> >> benefit in the beginning.  With spells, often it's so that there is
> >> no 'dead zone' with the spell such that for one or two EL's it virtually
> >> doesn't do anything.  Why would a Mage even bother casting a spell that
> >> does nothing?
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> >> The round downs are intended to be restrictive.  They are usually
> >> there to encourage a player to strive higher in order to gain an
> >> important improvement.
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> > See I like your POV.  IT does help the newbies.  I just remember
> > months in this list with Richard talking about it.  I guess he
> > didn't explain it well enough or I was too brain dead. :)
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> > But yeah I always use my 'new' math or is it the old new math
> > or the old old math?  From '80s.  :)
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