OpenEuphoria

RE: MLM Numbers Game

• Posted by Matthew Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at YAHOO.COM> Oct 12, 2001
• 468 views

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. K. Lester [mailto:cklester at yahoo.com]
 
> I used a test value of 10556. This should give us a General 
> with one FULL
> leg. Your program worked fine {10000, 500, 50, 5, 1}. If you 
> use 10557,
> however, you get TWO Generals! This extra guy should be in 
> the soldiers
> tier.

D'oh!  I thought I could simply get away by checking the lowest rank.  This
should work:

-- next calculate amount of each for a population
while ix and pop do
  if ix < length( actual ) then
    actual[ix+1] += 1
    pop -= 1
    -- account for overflow
  end if

--**************DELETE THIS**************--
  -- ensures no partial lowest ranks
  if ix = 1 then
    actual[2] -= 1
    pop += 1
  end if
--***************************************--

  quo = floor( pop / amount[ix] )

--**************CHANGE THIS**************--
  if quo then
    sum = quo
    actual[ix] += sum
    pop -= sum
    for i = ix-1 to 1 by -1 do
      sum *= required[i+1]
      pop -= sum
      actual[i] += sum
    end for
  else
    pop += 1 
    actual[ix+1] -= 1
  end if
--************************************--

  --pop = remainder( pop , amount[ix] )
  ix -= 1
end while

if ix > 1 then
  actual[ix] -= 

end if

 
> Is it possible to manage the matrix itself in a sequence 
> variable? This
> might allow us to actually PLACE units instead of estimate 
> where they'd
> be...

I don't think you'd want something like that.  Seems too difficult to
manage.  However, you might set up something like an EDS table or simlply
use a-lists (EDS would probably be better for large populations, but Jiri's
a-list code is pretty easy to use):

The key could be a name or whatever.  You'd also store the rank, 'parent'
and 'children'.  I'll simply put the 'key' as the first sequence element:

{key, Rank, Parent, {Children (immediate)}
{Gen1, 5, {}, {Capt1, Capt2, Capt3, Capt4, Capt5}}
{Capt1, 4, Gen1, {lt1, lt2,...}}

Now, you can find/add/delete as you like, and you can also assemble a tree
of people rather easily.  Of course, if you delete, you'll need to remember
to update parent/children according to the rules of the organization (ie, do
you inheirit the children of a deleted child?}

Matt Lewis