You are correct.

HOWEVER, having said that, there are ways to write it that can easily be screwed up if one forgets the order between division and multiplication (as I did) and there are ways to write it that are not subject to that mistake at all.

For instance Lb=V÷100TLm is order dependent (if I multiply the 100 x TLm first, the answer is wrong).
by comparison...
Lb=VTLm÷100 is NOT subject to an order dependence between multiplication and divisions (If you divide first, you'd still do V * (TLm/100) which is right, and if you do multiplication first, you'd do (V * TLm) ÷ 100 which would still work)

So, at the least, it isn't an optimal way to write it to avoid that fairly common error.

But yes, it is correct, if not optimal, as written.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:48 AM Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:


On 24Sep2020 1642, Ethan McKinney wrote:
> Yeah, it's obvious that they left out the parentheses.
>
> You'd think these things would have popped up. I suspect no player or
> GM ever tried building with that system.

I did, never had a problem with it. I followed the rules for the order
of mathematics operations: BODMAS.

Brackets, then Orders, then Division, then Multiplication, then
Addition, and finally Subtraction.

Lb = V÷100[×]TLm seems fairly clear. Velocity divided by 100 and then
mutliplied by the Tech Level Multiplier.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>

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