The Definitive Thread on Basic Changes

**Somebody Else** · 12-11-2006, 00:29

Originally Posted by pevergreen

Well at zero (100/0) it would make 0% spawn rate, yes? If so, why does 0 spawn numberless stacks?

I was always taught that anything divided by zero was infinite... but then maybe my maths is dodgy (not a good thing, I have a maths exam tomorrow morning). To get 100/x to equal zero, x would have to be, well, infinite.

**pevergreen** · 12-11-2006, 06:59

Originally Posted by Somebody Else

I was always taught that anything divided by zero was infinite... but then maybe my maths is dodgy (not a good thing, I have a maths exam tomorrow morning). To get 100/x to equal zero, x would have to be, well, infinite.

I thought /0 or 0/ was always 0.... It works for multiplying.

I'm going off my experience and others threads for that. 0 makes large spawns, 100 has given me 2 spawns (3 units in each) for + 400 turns. No Pirates!

That really helps, as in current vh/vh i am England....in Holy Lands only! Its great because everyone is at war with you, but Scotland wont take any of the rebel english territories now... and HRE wouldnt accept them.

**Somebody Else** · 12-11-2006, 08:22

Originally Posted by pevergreen

I thought /0 or 0/ was always 0.... It works for multiplying.

0/x = 0.
x/0 doesn't. If you have 100/x, see what happens if you pick a big number, and a small number for x. So, 100/10 compared to 100/1. Which gives a smaller number? The one where 100 is divided by a number closer or farther from zero?

I mean, come on, this is pre-school maths here or something...

**Derventio** · 12-11-2006, 11:23

There are two things here that are getting mixed up:
In pure mathematical terms anything divided by zero is infinity.
Computers don't handle infinity very well so there is a convention sometimes applied that infinity is zero.
So you are maybe all correct.

How did the exam go?