What do you do with these?

go to guestions about scratch
1. i don't know
2. if you hawe 1.11 it will make 1
3. position ?/ color of other sprite

BlueSkyGuy wrote:

What do you do with these?

The first one is the “modulo” operation, or in other words: the “remainder of a division”.

Not sure about your mathematical background, so here's a short explanation:
Think, you want to share 6 apples among 4 people. 6 cannot be nicely dived by 4.
You can give out 1 apple to each, then you have 2 left. That's what the mod operator
calculates: 6 mod 4 is 2 . It's what remains, after having given each person the same
largest possible number of whole apples.

The division “() / ()” in Scratch is not limited to giving out whole numbers. If you
calculate 6 / 4, you'll get 1.5, which means each person gets one and a half apple.
To find out how many complete apples each one can get, you need to use the function
“floor” (in the same drop-down list as “round”).

I hope that helped.

If you use “round” instead of “floor” here, then you'd give each one 2 apples, that makes in total 8, which you didn't even have :-)

The

is just the block where you can pick one of a couple of functions. You'll eventually learn at school what functions like “sin”, “cos”,… do.

Asymptoteles wrote:

BlueSkyGuy wrote:

What do you do with these?

The first one is the “modulo” operation, or in other words: the “remainder of a division”.

Not sure about your mathematical background, so here's a short explanation:
Think, you want to share 6 apples among 4 people. 6 cannot be nicely dived by 4.
You can give out 1 apple to each, then you have 2 left. That's what the mod operator
calculates: 6 mod 4 is 2 . It's what remains, after having given each person the same
largest possible number of whole apples.

The division “() / ()” in Scratch is not limited to giving out whole numbers. If you
calculate 6 / 4, you'll get 1.5, which means each person gets one and a half apple.
To find out how many complete apples each one can get, you need to use the function
“floor” (in the same drop-down list as “round”).

I hope that helped.

If you use “round” instead of “floor” here, then you'd give each one 2 apples, that makes in total 8, which you didn't even have :-)

The

is just the block where you can pick one of a couple of functions. You'll eventually learn at school what functions like “sin”, “cos”,… do.

The problem with saying that I'll learn at school what “sin” and “cos” do is that I'm homeschooled…

I need help with operators!

RafedAkeef wrote:

I need help with operators!

If in doubt, always check the Scratch Wiki first

http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Operator_Block should give you everything you need t know.

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