Base Camp Planning Calculator

No. Tents, latrines, shower points, and power requirement are all computed from personnel count alone -- duration days appears nowhere in those four formulas (lines 14, 22, 25, 28). Duration only multiplies into total water requirement, scaling the daily water figure by how many days the camp will run (line 19); every other output is fixed once personnel count is set.

Climate zone selects a per-person daily water rate from a three-value table: 12 gallons in cold conditions, 15 in temperate, and 20 in hot or arid conditions (line 17), which then multiplies by personnel count for daily water and by duration for total water (lines 18-19). Moving from cold to hot roughly doubles the water requirement at the same personnel count and duration.

Tents needed rounds personnel divided by 16 up to the next whole tent (line 14), so a personnel count that does not divide evenly by 16 always uses a partial tent's worth of capacity. Doubling personnel does not exactly double the ceiling-rounded tent count, though the difference shrinks as personnel count grows and the rounding overhead becomes a smaller share of the total.

Perimeter starts from living space of 72 square feet per person (line 13), triples that figure to account for support infrastructure and buffer space around the living area (line 31), and then estimates a square footprint's perimeter as four times the square root of that total area (line 32). It is a rough planning figure for force protection, not a surveyed camp layout.