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OloroMemez wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:32 pm Fixed now. Was even less clear than I realised. The 10 is taken to the negative sixth power for scientific notation.

Ah, that makes a lot more sense now. 0,000009429
But I am still wondering:
(9.429 * 10^-6 * Suitability) * Diameter^2

Multiplication by a purely decimal number, is usually just a dvision.
For example, division by 2 can be done by multiplying by 0.5 (or the result if 1/2).

If my math and the Windows Calculator are not totally off, it should be about a division by about 106.055,78534309046558489765616714

I'm not sure if that's right. But that's a pretty massively long decimal, and I think there's an easier way to express all this. I've included the small decimal as I think it does improve model accuracy

Population = (9.429 * Suitability + 0.018) * Diameter^2

Then you can just divide the entire answer by 1 million, to get the answer in millions

OloroMemez wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:07 am I'm not sure if that's right. But that's a pretty massively long decimal, and I think there's an easier way to express all this. I've included the small decimal as I think it does improve model accuracy

Population = (9.429 * Suitability + 0.018) * Diameter^2

Then you can just divide the entire answer by 1 million, to get the answer in millions

Hmm.
10^-6 is divided by 1 Million.
Population is displayed only in Millions (rarely in thousands), usually rounded up to the nearest million.

But I do know population is calculated and simulated down to the last digit (as you can see in colonyships in the Expansion Planer list, when they are loading population).

I never considered this before.
So maybe the maximum population is actually calculated down to the last digit, rather then just the nearest million?
It is just that the display is not precise enough?