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cellspace the grid of cells representing a digitized terrain
citizen the digital human being, has attributes like vision, metabolism, sex etc.
consumption units abbr. CU, refers to the number of cycles, for which a current commodity's stock will suffice. Derived by dividing commodity by metabolism for that commodity.
marginal rate of substitution abbr. MRS, the value of sugar in units of spice.
surplus the excess supply of one commodity after subtracting the amount required to keep TUD constant.
time until death abbr. TUD, the number of cycles that a citizen will survive given present stock levels. It is equal to the lowest value of all CU's.
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