What book would you be most interested in?

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I've seen lots of people say that. It confuses me; I've used Vehicles without much trouble and with pleasure, but every time I've taken a look at Spaceships I've been unable to make head nor tail of it.

I used Vehicles, too, and yeah, it required a little bit of arithmetic, but nothing a 13-year-old with a calculator couldn't handle.

I like it because you get exactly the vehicle you want, you know its layout, and you know all of its capabilities.

But, given how phobic people get about arithmetic (doing cube-roots, especially with a calculator, doesn't even really qualify as "mathematics"), I completely understand the decision to go with something simpler.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

I used Vehicles, too, and yeah, it required a little bit of arithmetic, but nothing a 13-year-old with a calculator couldn't handle.

I like it because you get exactly the vehicle you want, you know its layout, and you know all of its capabilities.

But, given how phobic people get about arithmetic (doing cube-roots, especially with a calculator, doesn't even really qualify as "mathematics"), I completely understand the decision to go with something simpler.

On one hand, yes, but on the other, I don't find Spaceships simpler; quite the contrary.

(There was a time when I wanted to do some vehicle design, but I had mislaid my calculator. So I got out a slide rule and used that for the cube roots . . .)

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by whswhs

On one hand, yes, but on the other, I don't find Spaceships simpler; quite the contrary.

(There was a time when I wanted to do some vehicle design, but I had mislaid my calculator. So I got out a slide rule and used that for the cube roots . . .)

I just used the calculator on the computer, since I put all the setting notes in my documents folder, anyway. :)