[PatG]

While contemplating the .45 vs 9mm SMG section of the MG thread, two thoughts occurred to me. The first is that, as discussed many times before (especially by non-coders like me), many problems with armour thickness, weapon accuracy and other seeming inconsistencies could be fixed by using a larger variable in the code to hold values.

The second thought was the staggeringly enormous amount of work that would be required to check the type of every instance of every variable, re-work all the algorithms and redo all the bounds checking routines.

So in order to give us non-coders some idea of what it means to try and differentiate between 4mm and 8mm armour class 1 vehicles and M3 - MP40 SMG accuracy, my question is: In terms of orders of magnitude (1,000s, 10,000s, 100,000s), how many lines of code are there?