BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I think this is a no-op (and thus Trivial), but a clarification is always worthwhile.

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Trivial. The expected value is clearly referring to the expected value of the new Business Plan, so this is not needed.

From Wikipedia, “In probability theory, the expected value (or expectation, or mathematical expectation, or mean, or the first moment) of a random variable is the weighted average of all possible values that this random variable can take on.”

In other words, the expected value is the average value, not the upper bound.  What you are proposing will make it to where 200 should be the upper bound (and -200 the lower bound).

@Yoda: the new wording says “expected change”, so it’s equivalent; an expectation is being taken both ways.

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Trivial. Let’s just keep the existing wording “expected value”, because it’s actually more clear than this “clarification” is.

Under the current wording, a business plan is not legal if it results in the Worth of its corporation being greater than 200 on average.

No, the expected value refers to the Business Plan.  Also, it’s a *should* and therefore is not absolutely required.

Because Ely has idled, the current vote count is 4-2.

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I don’t see how the expected value could possibly refer to the Worth of the corporation.

“A Business Plan is a method of altering the Worth of the Corporation to which it belongs.”

Ah, I see where you’re coming from now, thanks. I could swear that we had defined Business plan as something like “a method of generating a positive, negative or zero integer”, but apparently this other definition got voted in. Still, this doesn’t mean that its expectation value is equal to the expected Worth after the change. I couldn’t tell you what it is, to be honest. Do operators even have expectation values, outside of quantum mechanics? (this is possibly an incredibly silly question to ask, but my mind’s numb after a long day at work)

We’d probably be best off redefining Business Plans to a number generator and state that we add the result to the Worth whenever we do a Quarterly Report. That would also fix the ‘must be able to produce negative numbers’ issue.

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