h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ARGH. I love how the graph looks -- very , but it's factually incorrect! According to the text, the sigmoidal should be the yellow curve, but in the graph it's orange. The converse is true for the exponential curve; orange text, yellow curve.

And it was such a nice graph too.

Plus another nitpick. The added paragraph should say "graph below", since the graph is in fact directly below it.

I think this Entry is cursed. It will never make it through editing... oooOoooOOOoh

The entry is not cursed - just requires a little more work... something that usually happens when an entry is written by several people on a subject that is quite intricate.

One of the beauties of the Guide is that we can get feed back so the entry will be spot on when it enters the Official Guide.

I'll let the artist know.

Ashley

Thanks for the comforting words...

I still think it's cursed though. OooOOOOOooooOoOOOOoooOoOoooh

Nah. Actually, I just like the ghost smiley.

Hmm. Is it "gray" or "grey" in Great Britannia? I just discovered that the Entry is inconsistent. It says both "grey goo" and "gray goo".

And now...

Graph and Gray/Grey problem *should* be ok now...

*should* being the mot de jour

Gray/Grey is fixed, but alas, the graph still shows exactly the same error as the previous graph. But do not despair! Since it is the ~background~ colour that show which curve is which this time, even an inept artist such as myself can fix it. I'll make a new version of this image, showing exactly how it should look. That way, there should be no confusion at all -- "should" still being the mot du jour, it still being the same day and all.

Here's a link to a link page that links to the image...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A562394

For the record, the only change I made was swap the words "Sigmoidal" and "Exponential".

And now?

That was fast!! Yes, that's it exactly! I do believe the Entry is perfect now, or at least subjectively so...

This must mean it's ready for the front page!!

it'll be there in a couple of days....

<-- ambivalence