[Freeciv-Dev] Re: TODO

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Thue wrote:
> > > +- 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.

This is something I wrote to do the exactly same thing, when I worked on
freeciv like 2 years ago.  It's a much better algorithm than you've used.  Of
course, do to NIH syndrome, you'll probably do things to stupid way.  Or
someone will change a variable so they can claim they wrote it.

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