Nobody
May 30, 2019, 12:36pm
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A feature I’d like to see in Hopscotch is: A factorial block. If you don’t know what it is, it’s all the numbers multiplied from 1 to x.
I’d use it for this type of project: A calculator and a couple other things
Here are some examples of Hopscotch code that could be improved if we had this: Instead of having to do 4 • 3 • 2 • 1 we could do (4!) The exclamation mark is the factorial symbol.
I’ve seen something similar in another programming languages, it looks like this: I haven’t seen anything similar
If there is something like this please tell me!
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This would be cool!
So a factorial of 4 would be 4 x 3 x 2 x 1?
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that would be awesome, nice!
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Cool! Should also include factorial +, - and /
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TheOnionSWE:
factorial +, - and /
Uh, that’s not how math works?
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I was wondering that. I thought factorials were only multiplying.
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Correct. Also the symbol is ! –– you’d have 5! = 5*4*3*2*1
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Yes, but what I mean is 4+3+2+1, 4-3-2-1 and 4/3/2/1
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Nobody
May 30, 2019, 1:34pm
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4/3/2/1 is not possible unless you want a number super small.
4 divided by 3 = .75 divided by 2 = .375 divided by 1 = .375
4 - 3 - 2 - 1 = - 2
Imo the only sensible one would be 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10
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Why would we need this? I don’t think THT should go around adding random blocks that will barely be used.
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Well, more math is always cool! But I understand what you mean. I am pretty sure that having this feature would be useful.
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Yes, but only the normal factorial (!)
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I have created this project that does this, so this might not be of any practical use.
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Yup, but the idea was to have it integrated
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May I ask you to simplify the algorithm a little?
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Nobody
May 31, 2019, 10:10am
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Thank you and welcome to the forum!
But where could we use it?
