0
\$\begingroup\$

Hello I am having an issue getting this equation to work, even with manually entering values replacing the variables. I cannot seem to get it to work, I have tested that the variables are being updated and working correctly and simpler equations are working and are able to be drawn, but when i try this all i am getting is "0.00"

yes this is working out profit made from bitcoin mining.

The original equation i am trying to get to work is dailyprofit = 24/(d*2^32/(h*10^6)/60/60)*c

global.profit =(24/(global.difficulty * power(2,32)/(global.hashrate * power(10,6))/60/60)*global.reward);

any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Improve this question
\$\endgroup\$
3
  • \$\begingroup\$ Are you accidentally doing integer division at some point? \$\endgroup\$
    – congusbongus
    Dec 31, 2013 at 4:44
  • \$\begingroup\$ I am sorry i am not 100% sure as to what you mean. Though possibly the '24/' at the beginning, when removed it gives me the wrong result but i do get a result. \$\endgroup\$
    – user913627
    Dec 31, 2013 at 5:32
  • 2
    \$\begingroup\$ Try breaking up the calculation into multiple steps and printing out the value after each step. Better yet, if GM has some sort of a debugger -- use that! \$\endgroup\$
    – Martin Green
    Dec 31, 2013 at 9:47

2 Answers 2

Reset to default
1
\$\begingroup\$

You may have accidentally done integer division, which is division that returns an integer - the number that you expected from the division is truncated (which in this context effectively means rounded down) thus yielding 0.0 as the result of the equation.

To fix this, replace all of the "24"s in the equation with "24.0"s.

I'm not sure how GM handles this kind of thing, so it may not be the problem, but it's my best guess as to what's going on, Python does this kind of thing when you don't use a .x in a division.

Improve this answer
\$\endgroup\$
0
\$\begingroup\$

Thank you all for you help, and sorry. The error I found to be the cause was not to do with the equation itself. Game maker does not automatically draw more than 2 decimal places and this issue was resolved as below.

x=string_format(global.profit,0,6)

Then drawing X instead.

Thank you all again for your time.

Improve this answer
\$\endgroup\$

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .