Re: Elite on the TV

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:46:41 -0700 (PDT), DanSolo
<daniel.otoole@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Jun 28, 5:38 pm, "Steve" <dfsd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "were inspired by a 13th-century mathematician"
>>
>> That'll be Fibonacci, who came up with the mathematic system which some
700
>> years later was adapted by Bell & Braben to generate the galaxies etc.
>
>I think they were already writing the game when they came up with idea
>of using pseudo-random numbers to generate that data. Therefore all of
>the parts you mentioned are actually incorrect. Lets hope whoever
>wrote the review didn't write the show!

Whats happened to this show? Channel Five were showing them on Fridays
and I was looking out for this one. Now it seems to have been replaced
with some crappy remake of Superstars :-(
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