What exactly are the numbers below armies?

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Or is it above, I can't remember. Anyway I thought these are the weight values of armies, but upon closer inspection I noticed they don't always match the weight value that is listed in the detailed description when you click on an army. Is this a rounding error or some other bug or am I missing something here?

 

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Maybe the number below the army represents the number of troops and not the weight. Did I just answer my own question?

 

[Griffon]

you sure did! Rounded down btw (so 900 troops will read as 0 and 1999 will read as 1)

 

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A hint....

Hold the pointer over any figure or name text line you don't know what it is or otherwisae believe you need more info on. After less then three seconds you'll get the info.

/Greven

 

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Originally posted by Griffon
you sure did! Rounded down btw (so 900 troops will read as 0 and 1999 will read as 1)

I think technically one should say 'truncated down'. Though I know what you mean.

 

[Griffon]

English not being my native language, I appreciate the correction But we do say rounded up right?

 

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Originally posted by Greven
A hint....

Hold the pointer over any figure or name text line you don't know what it is or otherwisae believe you need more info on. After less then three seconds you'll get the info.

/Greven

Shure, just give all those good tips away for nothing. How am I supposed to win in MP games now !!!

Please think before you post!!

 

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Originally posted by Griffon
English not being my native language, I appreciate the correction But we do say rounded up right?

I'm an academic who teaches math and physics, I was somewhat answering from a computer science point of view

In a sense rounded down is really OK to say, as the context made it clear and there was the implication that you meant 'always' rounded down. but that is the meaning of truncation.

In most programming languages the truncation function is different from the rounding function. Rounding traditionally means:

4.94-> 4.9
4.96-> 5.0

last digit of a 5 is arbitrarily chosen as rounding up.

4.95->5.0

I admit to being overly pedantic in my original comment

 

[Griffon]

gotcha! thanks.

BTW, there's no such thing as a pedantic academic... wait a second I do have a post graduate degree and I am kind of pedantic myself.... hmmmm.... oh well!

 

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About the numbers, have you noticed this about enemy armies: if the number below the army shows, say, 28, and when you hold the cursor over the army it says 33XXX men, then you know that the army has 50 artillery (or so). Because the number below the army counts every 10 artillery as 1k, while the cursor number counts 10 artillery as 10 men only. It least I think it works that way...

 

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Joel is right about the truncation vs. rounding. I do programming for a living so this is something I encounter every day. I might just add that there's no need to say 'truncate down' because there's only one way to truncate!

Back to the topic.. If what Grenadier says is true then that's pretty confusing. I'm at work now so I can't confirm it but maybe that's what contributed to my confusion.

 

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Originally posted by beggar
I might just add that there's no need to say 'truncate down' because there's only one way to truncate

Yup, my mistake. Darn outtechnicalitied.