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RE: Army Composition

• Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Oct 10, 2001
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Hey, Dan, thanks for the help. All truth will soon be revealed.

> The number "10556" was  calculated by simple algebra:
>
> --Soldiers - no requirements
> --Squad Leader - commands 20 soldiers
> --Lt. - commands 10 Squad Leaders
> --Captain - commands 10 Lt.s
> --General - commands 5 Captains
>
>
> -- soldiers + squad leaders + Lts. + Captains + Generals = Population
> (army!)
> --s + (s/20) + ((s/20)/10) + (((s/20)/10)/10 ) + ((((s/20)/10)/10)/5)= P
> -- s + s/20  +  s/200 +  s/2000  + s/10000 = p
> -- 10000s + 500s + 50s + 5s + s = 10000p
> -- 10556s = 10000p
> -- s = 1000p/10556
>
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "4 levels and 6 levels" of rank.  You
> only specified 5 levels of rank.

Right. But "What If" I needed to calculate for a differently leveled
organization? What if my calculations required a 4-tier organization or a
6-tier organization, other than the 5-tier organization we've hard coded so
far...?

What if we had { "Soldier" , "Leader" , "Captain" , "General" }?

> If you want to find out how many different ranks there are, just look at
> each rank var, if not zero, increment a "NumberOfRanks" counter.

Yeah. That's what I mean. But how to implement? That's what I need to know.

> I didn't really understand what you're doing with the matrix, either, and
> the change in your rank system,
> ranks = { "Soldier" , "Leader" , "Captain" , "Sergeant" , "General" }
> seems wrong, it should be:
> ranks = { "Soldier" , "Leader" , "Sergeant" ,"Captain"  , "General" }

Okay! Sounds right to me. But anything would.

I'm just using familiar labels. We could also be using

	{ "Pion" , "Assistant Manager" , "Manager" , "VP" , "President" }

or something similar. The labels aren't what's important... It's the tiered
organization that matters.

Hopefully I've shed a little light on the above.

-ck