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How To Use Percentage In ROBLOX Lua?

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SwaggyDuckie 70
10 years ago

'Cause % Stands for Modulus, what stands for percentage, or does it have to be created myself?

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https://scriptinghelpers.org/questions/17663/whats-the-difference-between-and#21119 woodengop 1134 — 10y
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I've answered your comment. Shawnyg 4330 — 10y
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hehe woodengop 1134 — 10y

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Shawnyg 4330 Trusted Badge of Merit Snack Break Moderation Voter Community Moderator
10 years ago

You kind of have to create it yourself. It's pretty simple, though. Percentages can be expressed in decimals, such as 56% of 24 is (.56 * 24). If you need more of an explanation, comment!

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Well, this is an example, but if I did: .5 * game.Players.NumPlayers, is it then 50 % of players? SwaggyDuckie 70 — 10y
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It'll return the number of half the players, yes. @SwaggyDuckie Say if it's 10 players, it'll return 5. Shawnyg 4330 — 10y
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But...but I explained my answer yumtaste 476 — 10y
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yumtaste 476 Moderation Voter
10 years ago

You would have to create percents yourself.

In case you haven't been to 7th grade yet (I'm not judging you) or may have forgotten, percents work like this:

  • 2.5% written as a decimal would be 0.025
  • 25% written as a decimal would be 0.25

Basically, to turn a decimal into a percentage, move the decimal point to the right two places. To turn percentages into decimals, move the decimal point two places to the right.

So basically, since you can't use "%" in ROBLOX since it stands for modulus, you can store percents as decimals, and if you need to display them, multiply the decimal version by 100 and add a "%" symbol after it.

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Heh, beat you by 5 seconds. Shawnyg 4330 — 10y
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