Moxon, Elite market prices

Cite as: Moxon, Elite market prices
Original: https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/market_item_prices_and_availability.html
sha256: 24b1179d8fa4aa372e07f7f0d1be982a3ecea73b17713ef9ba264c0151bcee01
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260120214219/https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/market_item_prices_and_availability.html
Accessed: 2026-10-20
Credit: Mark Moxon's commentary on the BBC Micro Elite source.

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Each good's price is $(b + (r \land m) \pm e \cdot f) \times 4$ tenths of a credit, from its base price $b$ , a random byte $r$ masked by $m$ , the system's economy $e$ (0 to 7), and the good's economic factor $f$ , all in 8-bit arithmetic.		Code