When I originally looked at this, I certainly came away with the impression that PBG represented the second digit and not an exponent (and additionally, this matches TravellerMap's computation)-------- Original Message --------On January 17, 2018 4:34 PM, Kenneth Barns <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:Not a mathematician, but wouldn't the PBG number be 10^0.5, or 3.2?So assume Tenalphi is 63.2M inhabitants?Alternatively, If Pop = 7, and PBG = 6, perhaps we could treat its population as 10^7.6 = 39.8M?That would lead to a smoother logscale in population distributions (albeit non-canonical).--Cheers!Ken******************************** Kenneth Barns MB BS BSc FACRRM (Emergency)GP and Clinical Director, UQ HealthCare IpswichSenior Medical Officer / Rural Generalist (Emergency), Beaudesert HospitalSenior Lecturer (Medicine in Society), Rural Clinical School, University of Queenslandemail: xxxxxx@gmail.com (preferred contact)Mobile: +61 4 5957 2825 / 04 5957 2825Fax (work): +61 7 3381 1809 / 07 3381 1809On 18 January 2018 at 10:19, Catherine Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:Of course, the interesting twist is that actual distributions are bottom-heavy within each range -- there will be more worlds with 60-65M inhabitants than 65-70, because (as you've said) as the pop goes up, the frequency goes down. Developing and applying a power-law model that fits the data is left as an exercise. :)On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Ethan Henry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:I took the PBG number into account but I just took the low end of the scale - as you note, I take Tenalphi as 60M instead of the middle of the range at 65M.It would be easy enough to tweak the formula in the Population column and copy/paste it to use the middle of the range rather than the bottom.On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Caleuche <xxxxxx@sudnadja.com> wrote:It's interesting, I get slightly different numbers. For example, in the spinward marches I get a population count of Interval[{92,559,896,270, 123,188,731,073}] at TL8 or lower. Are you accounting for the "PBG" population modifier? For example Junidy in the Spinward Marches should have a population between 30,000,000,000 and 39,999,999,999.You do mention Tenalphi has a population of 60 million (that is, 60 million to 69,999,999), so you do account for the pop modifier, but when computing the statistics do you treat that 60-69.9 million as an interval, or just take the lowest value?I get the current total population of the Imperium (Allegiance code = Im*) as 18,049,041,349,210 to 21,832,723,838,665. Far from being 11,000 worlds, I count 8988 worlds. This with the travellermap API scraped as of about 20 minutes ago.Interesting work, thanks!----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=PltOdItWBSgOP4y0Q6a bkGbDI1eus0lz --"Eternity is in love with the productions of time." - William Blake----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=cApOz9iiqi898Eb3etQ R6zXwBhUETGnX http://archives.simplelists.----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please go tocom ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u= cApOz9iiqi898Eb3etQR6zXwBhUETG nX