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Scott Handelman
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19/05/2004
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14th July, 2004 at 19:19:55 -
So I made this stupid little shooting game where bunnies appear randomly on the left and right. I use one global variable to hold onto the number of bunnies killed and another to hold onto the number of times I've clicked. On the next screen, I put the # of kills in a counter and the (# of kills/# of clicks)*100 in another counter to create an accuracy rating. The first counter works fine. The second counter, no matter what I do, always reads zero. Is a counter not able to round up or down, does it just not read floating point numbers? Is there some other, more reliable way to print a global value to the screen?
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Peblo
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14th July, 2004 at 19:31:33 -
Are you using MMF?
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RapidFlash
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14th July, 2004 at 19:32:57 -
It should use floating numbers (for MMF, at least). Just in case, for the equation, add a decimal in there. So if our equation was 1 + 1, then we'd do:
1.0 + 1
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David Newton (DavidN)
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14th July, 2004 at 20:35:03 -
Without decimals, the second counter will always read zero because of the way you're doing the calculation. It's first dividing the number of kills by the number of clicks, which will always be a number below 1 - this is rounded down to zero. This is then multiplied by 100, which is of course zero again.
To avoid the problem, use the formula (# of kills * 100) / # of clicks instead. That way you won't lose as many significant figures (i.e. all of them).
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Peblo
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14th July, 2004 at 20:40:26 -
Set the minimum option on the counter down. Maybe that helps?
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Tigerworks
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15/01/2002
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14th July, 2004 at 20:44:23 -
In MMF, add 0.0 to tell MMF to use floats.
In TGF, multiply by 100 first, to get a rounded percentage.
E.g. MMF: 0.0 + (Amount / Total) * 100
TGF: (Amount * 100) / Total
MMF will give a more accurate float answer, but they are both essentially the same result.
- Tigerworks
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Scott Handelman
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14th July, 2004 at 22:04:41 -
Thank you Wong Chung and Tigerworks. I should have guessed that the program would round after doing every operation. I was using MMF so I'll try adding 0.0, but both were very helpful. Thanks.
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