You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:
What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
I want to add x% (let’s say 20) to a value then bring the value back to what it would be without the percent ( so like 100 goes up to 120 then down to 100 again)
What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
I can’t just subtract the percentage like I would when I add the percentage because it wont return the same percentage. There could be a possible equation but I cant figure it out
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
note; I can not just return it to the orginal variable by making it a separte variable before the increase then bringing it back. Hard to explain but just can’t
note2; I could just find the exchange ( adding 20% = subtracting 16.6…7%) but Im just curious to see if there are any other solutions
-- Results in different numbers, In this case Val = 100
Val = Val + (Val / 100 * 20) -- Val = 120
wait(time)
Val = Val - (Val / 100 * 20) -- Val = 96
Please do not ask people to write entire scripts or design entire systems for you. If you can’t answer the three questions above, you should probably pick a different category.
So if I’m understanding correctly you’re trying to figure out what percent of x is equal to y?
If so your formula would be percent = y * 100 / x
So for example if you’re looking for what percent of 120 is equal to 100 you can do:
local startNum = 120
local goalNum = 100
local percent = goalNum * 100 / startNum
print(percent) --> 0.8333...
Now you can multiply percent / 100 by goalNum and your output will be goalNum
print(percent / 100 * startNum) --> 100
So to reiterate in your case,
local startNum = val
val += val / 100 * 20
task.wait(time)
-- now to "reverse" or find what percent of val is 100, you'd do:
local percent = startNum * 100 / goal-- remember equal to 83.3333...
local reversed = val * percent / 100 -- 'reversed' should now be 100 again, remember we need to divide 'percent' by 100 because percentages are really decimals (83% is equal to 0.83)
You want to get the original value without any modification, right? If so then this equation could help you:
X + X * 0.2 = 120 -- X is the original value
X * 1.2 = 120
X = 120 / 1.2
X = 100
The equation X + X * 0.2 = X * 1.2 is true due to multiplication’s distributive property
X + X * 0.2 = X * 1.2
X * (1 + 0.2) = X * 1.2
So you just have to add 100% to the used percentage (20% + 100%) and divide the modified value by that sum (120 / 120%) then you have the original value (100)
local value = 500
local percent = 20
local a, b = 0, 0
a = value + percent * value / 100
print(percent .. "% added to " .. value .. " = " .. a)
b = a / (percent / 100 + 1)
print(percent .. "% subtracted from " .. a .. " = " .. b)
I used 500, so you wouldn’t confuse where the 100’s came from.
And I posted to the wrong person again😒
I guess I did use a as a vaule I saved … but, I didn’t need to.
All I needed was what is the value and what percent are we dealing with.
The 100 is the default percentage ratio. You know, when you want a % of something, you always have 100 as the maximum %.
" In mathematics, a percentage is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100"
So do you mean that instead of writing percentages like 50% or 50 / 100, I’m writing them in decimals like 0.5? If so, I’m used to do that instead of writing it like it should be lol.
Yeah, I know that I shouldn’t write it in decimals if I want to get the percent.
I just did that since Astereaux wants to figure the original value, not the percentage
