I shouldn't be the one to ask you guys this...after all, when MASCOT first came out I was the one who stated it over and over.

There was an equation, sent to me from Ben way back when, that determined the speed for moving objects given certain variables.

Since then, I have lost all Ferazel paraphanelia once on my computer, including the MASCOT manual personalized by me after about a year of work.

If you have the equation around, please send it my way. I do NOT like guessing on such things. Thanks.

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Uhh distance equals rate times time?

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Here, I'll derive one for you:

y is the tiles/second.
x is the result.

x = y tl/s
x = y32 px/s
x = y32256 256ths of a pixel/s
x = y32256/32 256ths of a pixel/s
**x = y256 256ths of a pixel/second**

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Nope; quite sure it involved multiplying by 30 somehow, as well as 256. (Ben said there were 30 ticks a second in FW, and I believe him, as different as it is from the norm.)

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That's not different from the norm, as I recall there are 30 ticks per second in EV and Ares too.

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**That's not different from the norm, as I recall there are 30 ticks per second in EV and Ares too.

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I don't know about EV, but Ares uses 20 ticks per second

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**Nope; quite sure it involved multiplying by 30 somehow, as well as 256. (Ben said there were 30 ticks a second in FW, and I believe him, as different as it is from the norm.)
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****!
I messed up slightly.
Here's what it should have been:

x = y tl/s
x = y32 px/s
x = y32256 256ths of a pixel/s
x = y32256/30 256ths of a pixel/frame
x Approx. Equals y256 256ths of a pixel/frame
x = y*273.0666666666666... 256ths of a pixel/frame

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Would the quadratic formula be of any help? Remember: the opposite of B plus or minus the square root of the quantity B squared minus 4AC that entire quantity over 2A (ie the 2A is not beneath the radical) I love that formula so much and what saddens me is that since school ran out of time our algebra teacher won't have time to teach it to us (I know because I looked ahead and taught myself) and I think its quite possibly the most useful formula I've ever heard of, it allows you to factor any trinomial quite easily
17x^2-48654545x+78978=7x^2-154354x+454545
???? No problemo!!!

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In fact...you have no idea how bored I am:

(NOTE: The ? below is a square root sign but Ambrosia's server doesn't accept it as a character.

17x^2-48654545x+78978=7x^2-154354x+454545

10x^2-48808899x-375567=0
(ax^2 +bx +c =0)

-bą?(b^2-4AC)

2A

48808899ą?(48808899^2-4(10)-375567)

2(10)

48808899ą?(2.382308622x10^15-15022680)

20

48808899ą48808898.85

20

.15

20

OR

97617797.85

20

.0075

OR

4880889.893

(Remember to check for extraneous solutions!!!)

10x^2-48808899x-375567=0
x=.0075
.005625-366066.7425-375567=0?
-741633.7369=0?
I think not. Therefore, .0075 is an extraneous solution

10x^2-48808899x-375567=0
x=4880889.893
2.382308615x10^4-2.382308618x10^14-375567=0?
-675567=0?
Not quite, I would have accepted some off answers because of my calculator's automatic rounding but that is off by too much. Therefore, 4880889.893 is an extraneous solution

The solution set is therefore the null set.

Quadratic formula saves the day again!!!!!

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(quote)Originally posted by Dr Tall:
**Would the quadratic formula be of any help? Remember: the opposite of B plus or minus the square root of the quantity B squared minus 4AC that entire quantity over 2A (ie the 2A is not beneath the radical) I love that formula so much and what saddens me is that since school ran out of time our algebra teacher won't have time to teach it to us (I know because I looked ahead and taught myself) and I think its quite possibly the most useful formula I've ever heard of, it allows you to factor any trinomial quite easily:D

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AIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Math! :rips off his arm and beats himself to death with it:

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I'm so tired of being in "the normal math" that I fetched myself a calculus textbook and began teaching myself cal two years ahead of schedule.

PS...I think I will try to find a derivation of the quadrinomial (ie ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d). Never again will students have to factor! Bwahahaha!

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**I'm so tired of being in "the normal math" that I fetched myself a calculus textbook and began teaching myself cal two years ahead of schedule.:)
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What book?
The one "Calculus made easy", an old book, revised by Martin Gardner is good.
I know a tiny bit of differential calculus so far.
dy/dx (or is it dx/dy? I forget.) = n*x^n-1

For physics, the book "College Physics" by Franklin Miller and Dietrich Schroeer is fantastic.
I highly recommend it.

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It's just a standard calculus college textbook I found in a dumpster by accident. Good deal for free, no?

It's Calculus: One and Several Variables , by Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich. It's not excactly a page-turner, so I'm passing through it slowly.

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Never again will students have to factor! Bwahahaha!

Jeez, do you hate factoring too? I just finished Algebra I and our school year ran out of time so we never got to Chapter 11 but I looked ahead and taught myself the quadratic formula so I don't have to factor trinomials ever again. Let me share in your chorus of Bwahahaha!

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AIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Math! :rips off his arm and beats himself to death with it:

Why don't you like math? I love math. It's fun to see how everyday life can be simplified into an equasion

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Never again will students have to factor! Bwahahaha!

Jeez, do you hate factoring too? I just finished Algebra I and our school year ran out of time so we never got to Chapter 11 but I looked ahead and taught myself the quadratic formula so I don't have to factor trinomials ever again. Let me share in your chorus of Bwahahaha!
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Several years ago, I was in Algebra I. It was FUN!!! Also, using the quadratics equation is sooooo much easier then factoring those **** trinomials. So, Bwahahaha!

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Actually, I think factoring is way too easy. The quad formula involves too much number crunching, making it more appealing than factoring.

(Frankly I'm a bit partial to completing the square. )

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**(Frankly I'm a bit partial to completing the square.;) )
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I love that method.
Factoring is sometimes easier, but often hard.

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