OpenEuphoria

Re: Army Composition

• Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Oct 10, 2001
• 385 views

Hey, Cassidy...

Not everybody in the population will (can) be soldiers. For instance, if I
have a population of 20000, I won't have 20000 soldiers... Some of those
20000 will be Squad Leaders, LTs, Captains, and maybe Generals.

I'm going to try and work with your program, but maybe you can beat me to
it.

Thanks,
ck

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cassidy Napoli" <gonzotek at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:30 PM
Subject: RE: Army Composition


>
> I'm no good at math (read: really, really bad), so this may be totally
> wrong.  But I like the challenge and I'd like to see the correct code if
> mine isn't it.
> [code]
> --Rank over Population Problem
> --By A. Cassidy Napoli
>
> --For a given population, what is the maximum number of persons at each
> rank?
>
> --Soldiers     no requirements
> --Squad Leader commands 20 soldiers
> --Lieutenant   commands 10 Squad Leaders
> --Captain      commands 10 Lt.s
> --General      commands 5  Captains
> include get.e
> integer population,soldier,leader,lieutenant,captain,general
>
> population = prompt_number("Population Size: ", {})
> soldier    = floor(population / 1)
>
> leader     = floor(soldier / 20)
> if remainder (leader,20) then leader += 1 end if
>
> lieutenant = floor(leader / 10)
> if remainder (lieutenant,10) then lieutenant += 1 end if
>
> captain    = floor(lieutenant / 10)
> if remainder (captain,10) then captain += 1 end if
>
> general    = floor(captain / 5)
> if remainder (general,5) then general += 1 end if
>
> puts(1, "Population: ")
> ? (population)
>
> puts(1, "Soldiers: ")
> ? (soldier)
>
> puts(1, "Squad Leaders: ")
> ? (leader)
>
> puts(1, "Lieutenants: ")
> ? (lieutenant)
>
> puts(1, "Captains: ")
> ? (captain)
>
> puts(1, "Generals: ")
> ? (general)
> [end code]
>
>
> C. K. Lester wrote:
> > I want to know how many a certain population can support.
> >
> > If I have 2 million people, how many will be soldiers, how many
> > Generals,
> > and how many of each rank in between... You have to build it from the
> > bottom
> > up... Maybe there won't be any generals if the population isn't over a
> > certain number...
> >
> > Don't let the military designations confuse things. This isn't strictly
> > a
> > military problem as much as it is a tiered-organization problem.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > ck
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <euman at bellsouth.net>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: Army Composition
> >
> >
> > > First, how many Generals are there per people in the population?
> > >
> > > Euman
> > > euman at bellsouth.net
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
> > > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:46
> > > Subject: Army Composition
> > >
> > >
> > > > For a given population, what is the maximum number of persons at
each
> > rank?
> > > >
> > > > Soldiers - no requirements
> > > > Squad Leader - commands 20 soldiers
> > > > Lt. - commands 10 Squad Leaders
> > > > Captain - commands 10 Lt.s
> > > > General - commands 5 Captains
> > > >
> > > > I need a EUPHORIA program to compute these values given a
population.
> > > >
> > > > Who's got one?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > ck
> >
> >
>