[Low-Tech]Question about silk horse armor

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Originally Posted by malloyd

Nah, there is no power n such that x^n = 0 for x !=0.
It does make cheap useful things cost $10 or $1 or $0.1.

And yeah, it flattens out a lot of resource allocation decisions when most hand weapons cost $100 and most good armors cost $1000, but that's sort of the point about unrealistic pricing by utility, it's largely there to [enable] those kind of play issues, which may well not be realistic.

While true, curiously GURPS does officially avoid fractional prices, so for n=-1 GURPS would usually round to either 1 or 0.