ID:266203
 Sep 18 2001, 3:06 pm
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is there a command to set var/Health to infinite?
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Infinity, not being a number, is impossible to represent in computer terms.
The easiest solution, is just to set it to a ludicrously high number, like 100 billion. The better solution is to make it so no damage can be done to people who's health is supposed to be infinite. -AbyssDragon | |
AbyssDragon wrote:
Infinity, not being a number, is impossible to represent in computer terms.what about: 1.#INF it works!!! | |
I think 1.#INF actually just represents the "really really really large number that your computer won't bother to increase", something like 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000
You know... But then it doesn't really matter either. | |
Foomer wrote:
I think 1.#INF actually just represents the "really really really large number that your computer won't bother to increase", something like 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Ok, but since its so big it wont let me run!!! | |
AbyssDragon wrote:
I can't find any reference for that. How would yu do 9 to the tenth power? | |
AbyssDragon wrote:
Infinity, not being a number, is impossible to represent in computer terms. I dunno if it changed but back in the days when Cityworkz was around I found an exploit. You could give people negative money. But anyway afer giving enough negative money my money stat changed to Infinite. So I guess at a certain value a number just becomes infinite. | |
Air _King wrote:
Theodis wrote: That will compile but the ^ operator is the exclusive or operator not the exponent one. | |
Air _King wrote:
Theodis wrote: ^ is for exponentiation in some languages but not in others. In DM, only ** works for this, since ^ is for the bitwise XOR. Curious why you'd want 3,486,784,401 as a number in there, though. Sounded to me more like you wanted 109 (10**9 in DM), which is a billion (1,000,000,000). Lummox JR | |
Air _King wrote:
is there a command to set var/Health to infinite? I don't know to what extent DM supports special number values like infinity. Usually my solution is to use a negative number to indicate infinity, in cases where the number is meant to always be positive anyway. For example:
proc/Damage(amount as num)
if(Health<0) return // do no damage, infinite health
Health=max(Health-amount,0)
if(!Health) Die() // call the death proc, whatever it does
Stat()
// other code here just like usual
stat("Health",(Health>=0)?Health:"Infinite")
Lummox JR | |
1.#INF