Cookie Thread Act 3: The Cookie Strikes Back

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#22743

that breaks numbers like 8.3 tho

#22744

Let me check.

#22745

Right.

#22746

In story’s silly ahh goofball world of her own doing, collision detection. and like it probably isnt the best way for that either but I discovered theres absolutely nothing on this and now im just fascinated
you have the goober

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she is currently fully in tile 10 or tile 3:2 of this image. tile 10 is blank. it doesnt do anything on interaction. all good. 3 rounds to 3 and 2 rounds to 2. a dummy function is called
but lets say you have a normal situation, where say, gravity is being applied. she goes down. just a teency bit.
she is now in 3.1:2. The tile being touched is 4:2. the previous tile that she is in more of doesn’t matter as the gravity of the game means she will never reach a tile faster than it can be detected.

Okay, now the goober moves left. On this tick, after gravity, she is at 3.1:1.9. the two functions that need called are 4:2 and 3:1

On any given tick only 2 tiles need to be interacted with, being near round x, far round y, and far round x, near round y.

is this overly complex?? yes! yes it is! i do not need to do this! there is no harm in using conditionals or my slightly clunky solution or taking an actual course on games development instead of just winging it like a boss! however. i think this is neat

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#22747

I also think it’s neat.

#22748

Yeah, I think the solution is probably just to figure out the top number and subtract from that.
So like:

public int roundWrong(double number) {
   int upValue = ((int) number) + 1;
   return upValue - ((int) (number + 0.5));
}
#22749

The annoying part is that this is a piecewise function, so you’re not going to get any neat solution minus potentially some sin/cos wave shenangians?

#22750

my need to unneccesarily optimise random things will persist forever. I was born in the wrong generation man. Take me back to programming restraints and people making software on their own

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#22751

meanwhile me writing python code and going ‘it works nya nya nya it doesn’t need to be fast it never runs with large inputs’

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#22752

Question, @TodaysStory: if I have the number 8, in your thing, what would it round to?

#22753

except for combinatorics mafia
i will have to add more optimizations and put it in C :pensive_cat:

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#22754

one time I was working with txt files as storage because my cloud hosting thing didnt allow hard storage or databases without paying money (evil) (also I was stupid at this time but thats unrelated) and the best most memory efficient way to select a random line from the file was in python and I had to port it over to go

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#22755

This resonates with me on a personal level.

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#22756
  1. it is rounding after all. what does 8.5 do however? uhhh lets say 8.5 does not matter and I do not care
#22757

8.5 goes to 8, I think.

#22758

one time i was working with .csv files as storage because i was dumb and didn’t realize i should just use jsons (this is in terminal of lies and now it’s painful to change so it will just be there)

#22759

so like what is combinatorics mafia if you ahve to optimise it and put it in C im intrigued

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#22760

8.5 rounding up for closest is just as weird as rounding down. I dont think its very important

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#22761

actual life goal

#22762

COMBINATORICS MAFIA!!! it’s the setup May is hosting soon

i would like to find a strategy that optimizes the worst case number of guesses*, and how many guesses this strategy requires

*I’m imagining it as a singleplayer game where it’s just town guessing mafia, rather than two sides actually competing, as it’s way simpler that way

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