[TML] Freelance Traveller Contest #2008-02: Jump Destination

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On Fri, 2 May 2008 02:36:13 +0000 (UTC), ldegroff at ix.netcom.com (Leslie
DeGroff) wrote:

>Could you translate the UPP,   I am having confusion even as I look at
>one of the old classic books,  what is first Letter and the three
>extended digits.  Thanks 


>> A6369A5-D 304

The first letter is the Starport type - Class A is the best, ranging
downward to Class E, which is basically cleared bedrock with a beacon,
and then Class X, which is no port at all, or an interdicted world.

The three extended digits come from MegaTraveller, and represent the
population multiplier, number of planetoid belts in the system, and
number of Gas Giant planets in the system.

The population digit in the main UWP is the exponent; an exponent of 9
means 'billions of inhabitants'; the multiplier fines that down, and
represents the mantissa: 3, in this case, means that the world's
population is three billion (or about half of what Earth's population is
today).

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