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How To Use Percentage In ROBLOX Lua?

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SwaggyDuckie 70
9 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 — 9y
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I've answered your comment. Shawnyg 4330 — 9y
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hehe woodengop 1134 — 9y

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Shawnyg 4330 Trusted Badge of Merit Snack Break Moderation Voter Community Moderator
9 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 — 9y
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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 — 9y
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But...but I explained my answer yumtaste 476 — 9y
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yumtaste 476 Moderation Voter
9 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 — 9y
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