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Fourth, Fifth, and Tenth. (but seriously...)
If anyone has generally agreed-upon dimensions for the saucer sections of the Galaxy and Sovreign, I'd like to hear them. I'm trying to scale my starship designs, and I need some base measurements to start with.
I could also use Intrepid, Prometheus, and those little fighters from SoA sizes.
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Have you tried looking in the tng technical manual for the saucer section dimensions. i have a look tonight for you if you like? However, i cannot guarantee any thing.
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Altair: I assume you meant to use decimal points. Those look like commas. And are the stats for Sovreign and Galaxy the whole ships, or the saucers alone?
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Well, you see, Altair is from the Netherlands, so the commas...
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$10,000,000 here in America. My Chemistry teacher tried to enforce the metric system on us, even though no one used it. Putting spaces every 3 numbers makes it look like it's a different number to me so I'll stick with the commas.
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Spaces let you mentally group things rather well, IMO.
I have a list somewhere of what countries/parts of countries use commas, spaces, and periods for what when writing numbers. It was a pretty interesting list, too...
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The proper way to write down a hundred million dollars would of course be 10^8 $, or alternatively 100 M$. This way there is no endless and confusing string of zeroes that would require commas, full stops or spaces. Comparison of order of magnitude is also simple, since it's directly visible in the exponent or the prefix letter. (And of course the $ sign has to come after the number, not before it, to conform to the sensible general system).
Here in Finland, we aren't much better than the Anglo-Saxon world: we do place the symbol for the currency unit after the number, but we still use strings of zeroes separated by spaces, with comma as the decimal sign. Going metric came naturally (back then the nation was barely literate ), and going SI is also working in that we're finally getting rid of horsepowers and calories at least. But there's a lot to be improved in matters of notation...
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