4273 ROMAN TENT

[Gustavo]

It is our understanding that ALL of the buildings in the two attached pictures were made from existing System X parts! (Only the colours have been changed.)

All the best,
Richard

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WOW!! Beautiful pictures! They're from advertising videos, aren't they? Well, they should actually DO it! & With mobilia, and many little things inside!

Parts ordering in America follows an P^(n^n) complexity model.
Where P = the probability of acquiring one part for a multi-part item and n = the number of parts required to complete the multi-part item.

So, I estimate that to spare parts order one of the above Roman villas:

Odds of obtaining any one part: 80%
Number of parts: 20
Odds: 1.72E-37 %.

EH!! Greek! Translation, please!

(I'm joking Tim ... : I know that you are trying to say that you find it hard to do it. But your math is beyond my hability of truly understanding the demonstration ... I'll only believe in the spirit in it )


G.

[Gustavo]

The review is respectable--example: he knew enough about Rome to know some Latin terms.

However, his critique of the artillery piece is somewhat incorrect.

Although there are some errors, that's a pretty fair review.  I like the set quite a bit, as I do all the Roman sets.  Now if we could just got some Roman buildings...

There may be problem with his Latin as well ... I usually pass by them easily, but this one I'll have to speak out loud about:

Isn't Senatus Populusque Romani? Or is Romanus, -a, -um only attached to Populus? Now I got a doubt, here ... (My math does give me that 1+1 = more than one )

(G.)

[Timotheos]

Hi Gus

Romanus modifies Populus.
 
-Tim

[Timotheos]

EH!! Greek! Translation, please!

(I'm joking Tim ... : I know that you are trying to say that you find it hard to do it. But your math is beyond my hability of truly understanding the demonstration ... I'll only believe in the spirit in it )

It's a joke on the math from my statistics and computer science classes.

P = probability (50% = 0.50)
n = a variable number (in this case, number of parts needed to complete a thing)

P^(n^n) = probability to the nth power of the nth power.

Example:
0.5 ^ 3 ^ 3 = 0.5^9

Something that follows an "n to the nth" (exponential) complexity model is considered to grow hard fast.

A manageable problem grows linearly--ie. adding three more parts is 3 times harder, vs. exponentially, which would make adding 3 more parts nine times harder.

[Martin Milner]

Out of interest, are you guys (Tim & Justindo) still having problems ordering Roman spare parts?

I put in 2 orders in the last 2 weeks and had nothing refused except really old parts that I wasn't expecting to be in anyway (such as the violin & double bass set).

All the Roman parts I ordered were in stock, and I was ordering up to 30 of any one part at a time.

[Gepetto]

Martin,


I am glad to see that I not the only one Still trying to order the double bass and other instruments (I want a Mariachi Band!).  The last DS order I placed they said they had the parts but did not ship any! Order was short over 60 pieces.





Gepetto

[Martin Milner]

A little spirit in me hopes that if we keep asking, they'll keep a total of the number of requests and eventually run off some more. 

A bigger spirit in me says if you can't kill someone with it, they're not interested in bringing it back.   

[Timotheos]

A little spirit in me hopes that if we keep asking, they'll keep a total of the number of requests and eventually run off some more. 

A bigger spirit in me says if you can't kill someone with it, they're not interested in bringing it back.   

Maybe that explains all the soft rubber flag poles and cannons that only dribble their projectiles.

But seriously, as a kid, I played all the time with possibly the most dangerous toy in the world--1978 Micronauts--and never killed anybody.