Treasure Fleet inflation is off by an order of magnitude

[zdlugasz]

Never let facts get in the way of a good title.

Also, half an order of magnitude isn't 5, it's square root of 10.

Why? I would say that because magnitude is exponential thing than you should use logarithm !

 

[Arunvik]

This figuring out exactly what half an order of magnitude is is way too complicated, I suggest we switch to base 5 instead.

 

[Milith]

Why? I would say that because magnitude is exponential thing than you should use logarithm !

That's exactly what I'm doing, but I'm using the base 10 log though since it's what's most commonly used when people talk about magnitudes. In that case, increasing something by x orders of magnitude means multiplying it by 10^x, since x->log10(x) and x->10^x are inverse functions.

The natural log is just a base e log, but the idea is the same.

 

[zdlugasz]

That's exactly what I'm doing, but I'm using the base 10 log though since it's what's most commonly used when people talk about magnitudes. In that case, increasing something by x orders of magnitude means multiplying it by 10^, since x->log10(x) and x->10^x are inverse functions.

The natural log is just a base e log, but the idea is the same.

Yeah, you are right, I wrote before thinking this throught
not the first time ...