Can someone help me understand how theses two lines of code work?

[Temateite]

Hello, I’m bad at maths, if someone could help me understand how “t” works because I’m a bit lost.

local cycleTime = 2
local t = (workspace.DistributedGameTime)%cycleTime
print(t)

So with theses two lines it go to 2 then go back to 0 then go to 2 etc…

But if i do :

print(workspace.DistribuedGameTime) 

Then the time just go from 0 to like 50 if i stay 50 seconds in the game, without go back to 0.

I don’t understand how with the first two lines of code, why the number go back to 0 (then go back 2 etc…) ?

I’m sorry I’m having trouble being understood this is not my native language and I’m really bad at maths.

Thank you very much any help is apprecied

[PerceptualReality]

basically, modulo gets the remainder of a division statement. (3 modulo 2 is 1 for obvious reasons). so, when the time gets to 2, the remainder will be 0. and for every multiple of 2 the time reaches; the remainder will be 0.

[Temateite]

I’m sorry, I don’t understand at all. Isn’t there a way to explain this in very simple words (as if you were explaining to a 6 year old )? That would help me a lot

[PerceptualReality]

modulo gets the remainder of division. we’re getting the remainder of DistributedGameTime and cycleTime (which is 2). we know 4 / 2 has no remainder. we know 6 / 2 has no remainder. so, the t value will be 0 if DistributedGameTime is a multiple of 2. (a multiple of 2 is 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.)

edit: the modulo operator is the % sign or the percentage sign.

[Temateite]

@PerceptualReality

modulo gets the remainder of division. we’re getting the remainder of DistributedGameTime and cycleTime (which is 2). we know 4 / 2 has no remainder. we no 6 / 2 has no remainder. so, the t value will be 0 if DistributedGameTime is a multiple of 2. (a multiple of 2 is 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.)

Okay, thank you, I’ll try to meditate on these words to understand their essence. Thanks again for your help!