Actually, Excel has some nice functionality for doing this as well, although it isn't obvious that you first have to make a chart out of your data to do it :P Using Excel, I got the following polynomial equation for the MU para saving throw: 6e-8x^6 + 1e-5x^5 - 0.0011x^4 + 0.0321x^3 - 0.3929x^2 + 0.5694x + 69.455 Which was actually a really good fit... ;) --- eglamkowski@angelfire.com http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski/null.html <- Null webring http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski/eia.html <- EiA webring On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:07:53 Edward J Glamkowski wrote: >So, I found this graphing program that will generate >best fit formulas. I put in the saving_para numbers >for mage, cleric and thief, used what I deemed the >"nicest" of the equations to try and fit (exponential), >and got the following: > >mage: 68.8^((-t/34.07)^1.615) yech :P >cleric: 61.5^(-t/17.39) better >thief: 67.5^(-t/50.8) > >The thief line actually looked like it could have been >describe very well with a simple y = ax + b type line >;) > >I tried using something other than exponential >equations (polynomial and gaussian) but it kept >crashing when I tried them ;) > >--- >eglamkowski@angelfire.com >http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski/null.html <- Null webring >http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski/eia.html <- EiA webring Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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