Re: [TML] Some useful color for your games Bruce Johnson 25 Dec 2017 18:20 UTC

> On Dec 25, 2017, at 8:01 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not sure any more what a dton equals in cubic meters. I've been using the GT English 500 cubic feet per dton for too long.
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> The article states the floorspace of a unit as 104 square feet. While it doesn't give a height measurement, the overhead looks quite low. So I'm thinking it's probably actually a bit less than two full dtons. But then, that "wastage" probably goes into access space, anyway.
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The whole thing is a cube, square root of 104 is 10.2’. Cubed is 1060 cf, or ~30 cubic meters, just over 2 dtons. Interior living space would be a little less, due to infrastructure losses.

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Bruce Johnson
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