Talk:Poison

--This is a work in progress by Ilobypie. Please do not make major edits until there is a new message saying it's done, or at least at a beta :) Thank you. -6/9/08

--Kk, beta is out, please proofread and fix if needs be :) - 6/11/08

-- Shows the need for LaTeX to be enabled in the wiki (see my request on forums). I can get you better looking formulas from LaTeX2HTML if you want.

-- The table should be done as a wiki/html table, imo. You should be able to export it from your spreadsheet program as csv (comma separated values), setting the separator to || and newlines to |-| , then add header and beginning and end by hand (or just copy the whole thing by hand). --Ermabwed 20:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

--I'll give these both a try when i get a minute later today :) Thank you for the tip. --Ilobypie.

--First goes right over my head, as for the csv, i have it saved as a csv file, how does that help me? The wiki has no open csv option as far as i can tell

-- open the csv-file with an editor (such as notepad if you're on windows), the contents should (almost) look like the source of a wiki table. You can then copy it to the wiki-editor window and apply some finishing touches (such as beginning and end of the table and header, rest should be working). --Ermabwed 05:48, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

-- can you add some insight as to how you get to the formula for poison total (should use a different letter than P for it, as you used that already for poison at a certain time, could be TP(k) (total poison for k simultaneous poisons). I figured the 51 = 6+3*5+3*4+3*2+3*2+3*2+3*1... your current formula can be simplified to read (using k for the number of poisons):

k*51 + 108* (k-1)*k/2 = k * (51 + 54*(k-1))

using the fact that the sum of the first n natural numbers is n*(n+1)/2 (see here for example). Thanks. --Ermabwed 07:03, 14 June 2008 (UTC)