Optimising division

A_game_Programmer

I am coding a triangle filler, and am wondering if there is a way to get scratch to not calculate the decimals.
E.g. 5 / 3 = 1.666666667, is there a way to tell scratch to stop the calculation when it reaches the decimals so that it spends less time on the calculation
I know that there is floor ( ), but scratch will still calculate the division first before chopping off the decimals which is not what I want as it still loops through the calculation of all decimal points.
If there is not any way to do then it is fine, I will try to do something with ( ) mod ( )

Igor-Gaming

I'm not sure if this will be faster but you can make a counter go up until it's score is equal to letter (x) of the number. In this case the (x) would represent the letter number of the period.

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Yusei-Fudo

So you want Scratch to calculate, but stop when it hits any decimals (That's not possible unless you change how Scratch calculates)?

Not too sure if that's going to make anything faster, but you could try using this block:

(() mod ())// If it reports a 0, then that number has no remainder, if it's other than 0, it has a remainder.

So you could try this:

if <(() mod ()) = [0]> then
calculate
end

Last edited by Yusei-Fudo (May 20, 2021 03:14:38)

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UltraGamer_Studios

Scratch doesn't have any integer division. Your best bet is just to use floor(), which doesn't make it any faster. Division can be done extremely quickly on a computer so I think you'll be fine just using floor().

Yusei-Fudo

UltraGamer_Studios wrote:
Scratch doesn't have any integer division. Your best bet is just to use floor(), which doesn't make it any faster. Division can be done extremely quickly on a computer so I think you'll be fine just using floor().

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