From: Ian Jackson Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:13:42 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Better description and estimate of reasonable expected loss X-Git-Tag: 5.0^2~114 X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~yarrgweb/git?p=ypp-sc-tools.db-live.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d43c63c6c4bd52cc51fb4bfa33e9238fde59f3c Better description and estimate of reasonable expected loss --- diff --git a/yarrg/web/docs b/yarrg/web/docs index a6f4bca..c211683 100755 --- a/yarrg/web/docs +++ b/yarrg/web/docs @@ -174,14 +174,14 @@ possible to do both.

-As a guide: you may expect to lose between 0.1% and 1% per league. -0.1% would correspond, for example, to losing one fight to brigands -every ten 10-league voyages. +As a guide: you may expect to lose between 0.01% and 1% per league. +For example 0.1% would correspond to losing one fight to brigands (who +take 10% if they win) for every 100 leagues sailed.

You can enter the value in the box either as a percentage, or as a -fraction 1/divisor, eg 1/200 is the same as 0.5%; in each +fraction 1/divisor, eg 1/2000 is the same as 0.05%; in each case it is taken as the loss for each league of the voyage.

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