[Freeciv-Dev] Re: TODO

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

> > +- Create a function that gives a statistically excact value for a units
> > +  chance of winning a battle.
> 
> I wrote a perl version once:
>   http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~dwp/freeciv/misc/fc_combat_odds.pl
> -- David

I converted it to C, but haven't yet freecivisized it. I wanted to understand
it, so the comments have a full formal proff of it's correctness...
Hopefully I will find the time to merge it into freeciv some time; I have some
other usefull combat calculation code to also include.

You have to link with -lm (libm = math.h lib)

-Thue

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printf("%s\n", -1L > 1LU ? "C sucks" : "as expected");

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