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Volume II, Issue One, Article 3
II (1) 3 The Art of Teleportation, and the Spatial Equation by Dragyn Once again I have been doing some spatial travel, mostly as a result of my untimely demise, and the planet I landed upon, BG, was not the one I expected. So obviously, while there, I endeavored to use the one known means of transport to get myself back home. So I decided to use the spell Disrupt, as it was the only one I had used in the past. Also, I wanted to see if it was possible to return without the aid of another person using the spell Gather. Of course, I failed even at that, but in my failures I collected some more data on the spell Disrupt, which I will again be doing a study on it that will hopefully prove some hypothesis from this article. Enjoy...... BACKGROUND For my last study on the subject, see MAJIK II (1) 2. This study attempts to answer some questions about using Disrupt on a third party, and also regards the topic of the mathematical equation used to determine the number of squares traveled. It only takes into account number of people and number of times a space has been charged (the comparison will hereout be referred to as the “charge ratio” or ChR) and does not factor level in spatial magic, overall level, direction, or anything else like those listed. So... [[Charge Ratio= (number of people in the tribe)/(number of times a space has been charged) Also, none of this applies to intergalactic travel. If you want to find out how to travel between planets, ask someone else. I screwed that up three times, and that ain’t all too good. But don’t worry, fourth time’s the charm......? THE EXPERIMENT First, I charged a square from no charges to 28 over a period of a few days. Then I settled a hamlet such that my total people were in a 10:28 ChR, or a 0.357 ChR to 3 sig figs. There were two other entities on the square, figgywiggy and bluedragon, each with respective ChRs of 3.07 and 3.86. Then, I used the spell Disrupt. Bluedragon did not move at all, figgywiggy traveled 1 square to the east and 5 squares to the north, and I traveled 4 squares to the east and 8 squares to the north. Using the javascript coordinates: BLUEDRAGON: (-3, 2) to (-3, 2) FIGGYWIGGY: (-3, 2) to (-2, -3) DRAGYN: (-3, 2) to (1, -6) ANALYSIS So, since I had three points of data, one of which an intercept, I could use quadratic regression in hopes of finding out the base equation used to determine the magnitude of spatial travel. The problem was, I had three different values for how far we did (or didn’t) travel. One was to simply count the squares. So, I traveled 12 squares, figgywiggy traveled 6, and bluedragon, none. Also, I could take into account the fact that squares are set at 135° angles, so then I would have traveled 11.19173, and figgywiggy went 5.75074. Rather close, but then again, it could be the difference between two different types of regression. The third type was different that the others, and it involved calculating the distance with the Cartesian javascript coordinates. Using this method, I was found to have moved 8.944 points and figgywiggy went 5.099. I decided to use all three, because I’d rather be safe than sorry regarding data collection. So, I plugged each into my happy little TI-83 graphing calc and fit a quadratic regression to them. Each time Distance was the X value, and ChR the Y value. Each were found to be perfect fits (I believe because there were only 3 points) and each were in the same general shape: A parabola that intersected the y-axis, peaked at about 10 on the x-axis, and sloped in a nice curve down to the point 3.86. I then opened the Table of values, and entered in the following data into the ChR heading (which was calculated by the calc into each of the three lines) ChR Javascript Counted Calculated Distance Distance Distance 0.5 9.27 12.25 11.46 1.0 9.95 12.62 11.91 1.5 9.90 12.23 11.61 2.0 9.14 11.07 10.54 2.5 7.66 9.14 8.73 3.0 5.46 6.44 6.17 3.5 2.55 2.97 2.85 As you can see, all of these numbers basically are the same thing (if you factor in how the javascript distance is calculated). They all are about the same number until 2.5, where they drop greatly. If you think about what this means..... CONCLUSION ~*~ HYPOTHESIS ALERT ~*~ So, this means that it really doesn’t matter how much people you have compared to the square’s charge, as long as it does not exceed 2.0 ChR. This has yet to be proven, but I will hope to be running experiments where I disrupt on a space with ChRs of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0, to see if I move a different amount each time. If I am true, I will not, but we shall soon see..... Hopefully this will help you next time you want to use Disrupt, look forward to the exciting conclusion when I say whether this is all right or not. Au expérience, Dragyn |
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