numbers in the city flag??

[Zedd]

I have forgotten what the numbers on a city represent, is it population???? My wife asked and i completely froze.

[yaroslav]

Yes. It's the population

But the number is not exactly on the city flag...

[Scouse Gits]

Well... sort of, IIRC the correspondence is that a city size of n represents a population of 5n(n+1) thousand people...

SG[1]

Edited to correct a minor factor of 10 missing...

[Mercator]

A city size of n represents a population of
(1 + 2 + ... + (n - 1) + n) * 10,000) people.

1 = 10,000
2 = 30,000
3 = 60,000
etc.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Mercator
A city size of n represents a population of
(1 + 2 + ... + (n - 1) + n) * 10,000) people.

1 = 10,000
2 = 30,000
3 = 60,000
etc.

That is exactly it!

For example a size 10 city=550,000 people.

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10=55*10,000=550,000.

[Scouse Gits]

Size (n) = 10
Pop = 5*10*(10+1) thousand = 550,000

SG[1]

[Mercator]

You're right! That's one handy formula I should remember...

Still, I think I'm right since the constant string "0,000" is appended to the population... Then again, doing 0.5 * n * (n+1) would be much simpler than devising some function to do the addition I described.

(my apologies for trying to be such a wise-ass)

[debeest]

I think the usual formula for the summation function is n(n+1)/2. That's the number of 10,000s in the population. SG just multiplied the formula by 10, so it produces 1000s.

[Galvatron]

So this would mean one pop-point represents 10.000 guys. Hmm according to this I'm really wondering why in the world 10.000 people could only produce two grain and one shield in one year. Very lazy guys

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Galvatron
So this would mean one pop-point represents 10.000 guys. Hmm according to this I'm really wondering why in the world 10.000 people could only produce two grain and one shield in one year. Very lazy guys

No, a population size of 1=10,000 guys.

A pop point of 2=30,000 guys.

n(n+1)/2=m*1000
2(2+1/2=3*1000=30000.