detonate() miscalculates airburst blast radius

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#33 detonate() miscalculates airburst blast radius

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Updated: 2003-04-20

Created: 2003-04-20

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According to `info Damage', blast radius is multiplied
by 2/3 for groundburst and 3/2 for airburst.

Let b be the blast radius.

nukedamage() uses blast radius b for groundburst and
b*1.5 for airburst.

It's caller detonate() uses blast radius b*2/3 for
groundburst and b for airburst.

Together, this yields blast radius b*2/3 for
groundburst and b for airburst, which does not match
the documentation for airburst.

Currently, this error has no effect, because damage
drops to zero long before reaching radius b. See also
bug#724511.