Current Population of Mega City One...?

[Floyd-the-k]

welcome to the board Ned-Kogar. Could you give that figure to the square kilometre, for those of us from metric countries?

thanks for giving me yet another reason to not compare Mega City One to the Maldives

[Floyd-the-k]

welcome to the board Ned-Kogar. Could you give that figure to the square kilometre, for those of us from metric countries?

thanks for giving me yet another reason to not compare Mega City One to the Maldives

[vzzbux]

Yay this thread is back, and a warm welcome to Ned-kogar

[,Mr. Nice]

That's about 792 per sq km.

[Tweak72]

Ah, but what about robots?

[ned-kogar]

Thanks for the welcomes. It seems nice round here.
 
Yep, 792 cits / sq km is right. According to the assumptions I've made. Figures come out a bit like this:

400 000 000 population
195 000 sq miles of MC-1
av. 50 000 pop / block
8000 blocks
305 sectors
26 blocks / sector
2050 pop / sq mile
1 block / 5 sq miles
each sector 25 sq miles

Pardon the imperials. And if I go wonky on my conversions:

400 000 000 population
505 000 sq km of MC-1
av. 50 000 pop / block
8000 blocks
305 sectors
26 blocks / sector
792 pop / sq mile
1 block / 13 sq km
each sector 64.7 sq km

Maybe.

I'm reckoning a LOT of MC-1 is industrial, too. That'll cramp the buggers in a bit.

I am 37 years old and my girlfriend has gone on holiday.

[ned-kogar]

That's reassuring - they'll take up lots of space too..

[Buttonman]

Shamefully I've neglected this thread which is right up my OCD street.

I think the city block issue is easily explained away - some areas will have a good few clustered together while others might have none at all. If you go to Springburn you'd assume that all Glasgow is multi-stories whereas they are the exception rather than the rule.

One thing that does seem strange is that the city is often described as having mile high buildings and city bottom as being a far down place. If that is the case the population density would be even lower.

The population should be ret-conned to 3 billion immediately. And then killed.

[ned-kogar]

Some kind of super-fecundity virus would do it.

Either that, or a previously unnoted census error.

That'll learn 'em.

[Richmond Clements]

a previously unnoted census error

I think that this idea is close to genius!

[Proudhuff]

'a previously unnoted census error' by the central computer?
Whatever happened to ERNIE or Bernie or whatever the central computer was called? Its not been see for ages.

We should Tell Wagner the numbers are up, it might mean another Apco'War

Huff

[Funt Solo]

Barney?  MAC?

I think he got sent to the cute/irritating cupboard with Walter the Wobot.

Once you factor in transport (roads, pedestrian areas, zooms, stratoports), industry (power towers, resyk, munce-processing) and rich people (that garden for the Banzai Battalion) taking up a lot of space, suddenly the population density ramps up in other areas.

Funt Solo, PhD Space Maths

[SamuelAWilkinson]

You can't exclude roads from the population density figures, because of all of those Mo-Pads.

Fegbarr, Lucasian Professor of Space-Maths

[Tweak72]

Oh GOD! The tread is repeating it self.

[Funt Solo]

I'm not excluding roads, just saying they must have a far lower population density, as there are only approximately 9 million mo-paders (according to my journal paper: 'Utilising Space-Maths to Accurately Calculate the Mopad Population of MC-1').

Apparently, though, the entire world of MC-1 Population Statistics Debate is about to be turned on it's head: I hear that a Professor Calahan is going to give a speech on how, years ago, he invented this character called Judge Dreed that's a lawman in Moto-City One.

Turns out that Wanger and Co. probably plagiarised the entire concept from him.