Hey.
So I'm reading the Burning Wheel book and I'm like "why do they call values 'exponents?' That doesn't... Oh, wait..."
Luke. Thank you. You actually know the math. Thank you.
yrs--
--Ben
huh? I do?
-L
Well, uh, maybe you don't. Suffice it to say that, in BW's die pool system, your chance of (one) success looks like:
P = 1 - (S^E)
Where P is the probability of success
Where S is your Shade (3/6, 2/6, or 1/6 for black, gray, and white)
and E is your exponent.
See how the Exponent is, in fact, an exponent? Whoa.
If you don't know the math, you're awfully good at faking it.
yrs--
--Ben
exponent also happens to mean "One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative" which is what the number does for shade. i never mathed out that equation, but that's neat.
-L
Hah, that's too funny.
I never liked the term exponent (my little brain can only store so many game terms at one time) but forgave it because it was a fully mathematically appropriate term.
Only to find out that the math had nothing to do with it, and instead the term was chosen based on a definition of exponent I've never ever heard before...
classic.