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Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

OK, please don't laugh, because I am quite proud of this. I never expected to use algebra and my teacher passed me because he was dating my attractive older sister.

%eval( 50 - (200 - (@sips + (50 * %int( (200 - @sips) / 50)))))

50 is the number of sips in a batch of magical potion
200 is the maximum amount in a standard vial

I can not fill '50' from my pot over 200 but I can pour '50' from a vial to a vial leaving a remainder in the second.

That is the remainder, or amount of cost * price per sip to "top off" a vial from a vial.

Anyway, being sucky at even multiplication I wonder if that was really dumb for math. I can't feel badly, I wooted.

Probably someone will go, oh x = y + 50, something like that.

What is certainly good, was while trying figure that one I realized:

#if (%1 = "VN") {jobs = %int( %eval( (200 - @sips) / 50))} {jobs = %int( %eval( (240 - @sips) / 120))}

instead of the old:

#var jobs 0
#var sips %number( @sips)
#if (%1 = "VN") {#if (@sips < 151) {#if (@sips < 101) {#if (@sips < 51) {#if (@sips < 1) {jobs = 4} {jobs = 3}} {jobs = 2}} {jobs = 1}} {#noop}} {#if (@sips < 121) {#if (@sips < 1) {jobs = 2} {jobs = 1}} {#noop}}

which was awful

anyway, if you read this, you must be a really smart person. I would get a headache looking at that, if I didn't need it.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

actually not the cost, which is without the -50, it is the price in gold of lost potion. I think that is more interesting then paying more for another of what you just bought

*shrug

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

oh this is used in an estimate