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Why doesn't this page contain information about the Bouncing Effect, where if the attack is <1% of the defender's shields it does nothing?
 
Why doesn't this page contain information about the Bouncing Effect, where if the attack is <1% of the defender's shields it does nothing?
 
:If you know about it, then why don't you add it? That's why this is a wiki... --[[User:Rob|Rob]] 13:53, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 
:If you know about it, then why don't you add it? That's why this is a wiki... --[[User:Rob|Rob]] 13:53, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
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Removed the "(but unlikely)" phrase from how an artemis can destroy an atlas.  There is, in fact, only a 12% chance the Atlas will survive.  Here's the math - in order to survive all three rounds that it could be destroyed in, it must survive each round individually, one after another, of which the chances are 60% (0.6), 50% (0.5), and 40% (0.4), respectively.  Thus, as these events are (in theory) independent, to find the chance of surviving all three, we multiply these together, 0.6 x 0.5 x 0.4 = 0.12.  Thus, there is only a 12% chance of that atlas surviving, and 88% chance that it will not.  Now, the definition of 'unlikely' may be debated by different people in the statistics field, but the HIGHEST number I've ever seen in a textbook as being defined 'unlikely' was 5%.

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Why doesn't this page contain information about the Bouncing Effect, where if the attack is <1% of the defender's shields it does nothing?

If you know about it, then why don't you add it? That's why this is a wiki... --Rob 13:53, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Removed the "(but unlikely)" phrase from how an artemis can destroy an atlas. There is, in fact, only a 12% chance the Atlas will survive. Here's the math - in order to survive all three rounds that it could be destroyed in, it must survive each round individually, one after another, of which the chances are 60% (0.6), 50% (0.5), and 40% (0.4), respectively. Thus, as these events are (in theory) independent, to find the chance of surviving all three, we multiply these together, 0.6 x 0.5 x 0.4 = 0.12. Thus, there is only a 12% chance of that atlas surviving, and 88% chance that it will not. Now, the definition of 'unlikely' may be debated by different people in the statistics field, but the HIGHEST number I've ever seen in a textbook as being defined 'unlikely' was 5%.