That's certainly the canonical meaning. But 10^(Pop + P/10) would give a nicer distribution. And really, I doubt many campaigns will hinge on whether Rafulambitor (pop 4, pbg 7) has 70,000 or 50,119 inhabitants. :)

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Ethan Henry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, that was always my understanding of what PBG meant - it's P * 10^(Pop). But you could do (P+0.5) or whatever.
10^(Pop+P/10) could work I guess maybe but that seems hard.

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Kenneth Barns <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, I agree that the PBG officially represents a 2nd significant figure. But it does mean that the Pop represents a log scale, and the PBG represents an arithmetic scale. Messy. :(
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