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Global vars as floats?

Discussion in 'General Modification' started by Shiningted, Jul 11, 2021.

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  1. Shiningted

    Shiningted The Thunder of Justice Administrator

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    The question is implied. I seem to remember running into this once before and I can't remember if, or how, I got around it - mine will only act like integers. Any ideas?
     
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    Sitra Achara Senior Member

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    You can convert the float to its underlying 32 bit representation and vice versa. In python this is done via the struct module (struct.pack and unpack).
     
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    Sitra Achara Senior Member

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    Oh, and of course you can always use it like a fixed point number, e.g. multiply by 1000 and round it for storing, then the other way around for retrieving.
     
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    Shiningted The Thunder of Justice Administrator

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    Gah! Too much effort!
    Yeah I'm doing that, thanks. I have a vague memory that I came up with some cunning fix last time I realised vars were integers (many moons ago), but I probably hallucinated it.
     
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    Shiningted The Thunder of Justice Administrator

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    Follow up question: @Sitra Achara , I ran some simulations where I was generating random numbers between 0 and 36 (no prizes for guessing why) - hundreds of thousands of times - and I get zero coming up on average twice as often as I should: even as everything else sort of 'evens out' due to the large sample size. Is there anything about the Mersene that might bias outcomes that way, do you know?
     
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    Sitra Achara Senior Member

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    Not as far as I know. How exactly were you generating the numbers?
     
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    Never nmind, I was massively underestimating how many throws I was actually doing (not a relevant number for final outcome). When I added a counter for this, it turns out zero came up every 36.98 times - pretty spot on.
     
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