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zenassem

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Posted: 24th Apr 2006 00:52 Edited at: 24th Apr 2006 02:09

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Sorry guys, can someone remind me of the modulous operator and how it works. I thought it was the % sign or a mod() function but I can't get either to work.

thanks

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oops I found it in the online help (they cut it short in the smaller user manual book)

it works like this

Editied again: MY EXAMPLE WAS COMPLETELY WRONG!!!!

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spooky

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Posted: 24th Apr 2006 01:22

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Suggest you revise your logic. you correctly state that X MOD Y returns the remainder after division, but rest of your description is just wrong.

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for f=1 to 30
print f;" = ";f mod 12
next f
wait key

Easiest way to see how many tiles jumped, assuming you are using Y#

tiles=Y#/32

because tiles is an integer, it will divide by 32 and round down

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zenassem

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Posted: 24th Apr 2006 02:08 Edited at: 24th Apr 2006 02:11

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Yeah thanks spooky I just realized that as I was getting crazy number with mod. It is the remainder, but not what I wanted for my example. I'll give myself 3 hits on the head

11 mod 2 would equal 1
11 mod 3 would equal 2
32 mod 4 would equal 0
32 mod 11 would equal 10

you will always get values between 0 and mod value-1

It's good if you need to control values to wrap around a certain range.

And here I tried to make the thread useful.