Re: [HOE] Concerns with a Junker power... [LONG]

[Matt Crawford <matt@severian.chi.il.us>]

> reduced, but the effective number of dice is now figured as the
> *factorial* of the actual number. So the base size of a 5d8 warhead
> is 5! * 0.2 = 15 * 0.2 = 3

Ahem.  "factorial" means you multiply all the integers from 1 to N,
not add them.  There's no single word for what you meant to say, but
the sum of the integers from 1 to N is N*(N+1)/2.  5! = 120, which
would give you an ammo size prohibitive indeed!