Math Problem

[Garrett19212]

When I multply a number by 1 i get -1.#IND

How can i make it successfully multply it by 1.

[w0uter]

did you do 0/0 ?

[Garrett19212]

What do you mean 0/0

here is an example of what i am doing.

$var1 = $var1 * $var2

Var2 is a customizeable value, so lets say its 1 by default

Then i make a label display $var1

it will display -1.#IND

[therks]

Firstly, you can do this instead.

$var1 *= $var2

Secondly, what does $var1 start as?

$var1 = 2
$var2 = 1
$var1 *= $var2
msgbox(0,0,$var1)

This works fine for me.

*Edit: And what w0uter meant was did you divide by zero? (I guess he should have said #/0, # being any number) Anything divided by zero will give you the result you're getting. (Ooops, see correction#2)

*Correction: Upon testing, I notice that anything divided by zero returns "1.#INF"

I find -1.#IND in the helpfile under ACos, ASin, Log, and Mod.

Are you using any of these functions in your script?

*Correction#2: Er, uh.. nevermind, w0uter is right. 0/0 (zero divided by zero) will return -1.#IND. Anything ELSE divided by zero will return 1.#INF. My bad.

Edited August 12, 2005 by Saunders

[Garrett19212]

No im not dividing by 0, nor am I using any of those functions.

[therks]

You still never said what $var1 starts as though.

[Garrett19212]

Iv been testing it as $var1 = 5

[w0uter]

to save us all alot of time.

post a small script that reproduces the problem.

something like what saunders did.

[therks]

Also: Did you try my example? Does it work?

*Edit: What w0uter said, but you don't need to give us a 2 page script either. Just post a working example that gives you the error. And by working I mean one that you can copy and paste, add nothing to, and run and it will give you the same error. That way we can test the exact same thing.

Edited August 13, 2005 by Saunders

[Garrett19212]

Im trying to get the error on a new script but I cant seem to get it, I have a ton of things that may affect it in script that is giving that error. So I don't know which things to copy.

[MSLx Fanboy]

In that case just post it as an attachment or the code itself (if its a relatively small script).

[Garrett19212]

Here it is.

Its a script that calculates damage, and damage reduction for warcraft 3.

If you put 0 in armor points, you will get the error im talking about.

Push enter to calculate the result.

DamageCalculater1.zip

[Valik]

Anything multiplied by 0 is 0.

$AttackR = $armorAm * 0.06
$AttackR2 = 1 + 0.06 * $armorAm

[Garrett19212]

Anything multiplied by 0 is 0.

$AttackR = $armorAm * 0.06
$AttackR2 = 1 + 0.06 * $armorAm

0.06 isn't 0.

[Valik]

I never said it was.

[Jason_A]

Division by zero:

$armorAm = GUICtrlRead($ArmorAmount) ; assume this is 0

...

$AttackR = $armorAm * 0.06 ; 0 * .06 = 0

$AttackR2 = 1 + (0.06 * $armorAm) ; 1 + .06 * 0 = 1

$AttackR = $AttackR / $AttackR2 ; $attackR = 0 / 1 = 0

$AttackAvg2 = $AttackR ; AttackAvg2 = 0

$AttackAvg2 = Round($AttackAvg2, 2) ; $AttackAvg2 = 0 (rounded)

$AttackAvg2 = $AttackAvg2 * 100 ; $AttackAvg2 = 0 * 100 = 0

$AttackAvg2 = $AttackAvg / $AttackAvg2 * 10

; $AttackAvg2 = $AttackAvg / 0 * 10 = ($AttackAvg / 0) * 10 !ERROR!

Since someone can (probably) have 0 armor points (if they're walking around naked, and aren't very hairy, I suppose), you will probably need to do an alternate calculation for that instance.

Edited August 13, 2005 by Jason_A