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How to make a money leaderboard change?

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8 years ago

So I have a leaderstats put in called CC (Cactus Coins, don't judge it.) and I want to make it so that if it's 1,000,000 it'll change to 1M instead of 1,000,000. And if it's a billion, make it 1B, and if it's 140 million, make it 140M rather than all the digits. How would I do that without calling hundreds of lines of code?

Ok, what I gave you was a function to shorten the numbers. You need a number to put into that function. Get the players Cactus Coins(really?) into the shorten function, and make whatever comes out be the stringValue. theCJarmy7 1293 — 8y

Ok alright I was a little bit confused now I get it. Thanks dude! (Also who's gonna be laughing when in 2 years from now Cactus City is gonna be so popular with its trendy cactus coins? HMMMM?) itsJooJoo 195 — 8y

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theCJarmy7 1293

8 years ago

01local letters = {
02    "K",
03    "M",
04    "B",
05    "T",
06    "QD",
07    "QN",
08    "SX",
09    "SP",
10    "O",
11    "NO",
12    "DEC",
13    "UND",
14    "DUOD",
15    "TRED",
16    "QUATD",
17    "QND",
18    "SXD",
19    "SPD",
20    "OD",
21    "NOVD", -- I really doubt somebody will get more than a novemdecillion
22    --put more here
23}
24local nums = {}
25 
26for q=1,#letters do
27    local dig = (q*3)+1 --digits
28    local letter = 1*(10^(dig-1)) --for dividing purposes
29    table.insert(nums,#nums+1,letter) --insert
30end
31 
32function shorten(num)
33    local len = math.ceil(math.log10(num + .5)) --get the digits
34    if len>=4 then --check if it's ok to shorten
35        for q=1,#letters do
36            local dig = (q*3)+1 --smallest number of digits the letter is
37            if len <= dig+2 then --check if this digit works
38                local toDo = math.floor(num/nums[q]) --the dividing number
39                local newNum = toDo..letters[q] --the new num
40                return newNum --return it
41            end
42        end
43    end
44end
45 
46print(shorten(1789000000000000000))--it returns the shortened num
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Then do what firedDusk said, use a StringValue when displaying the numbers

But afterwards it errored saying it was trying to perform arithmetic on a StringValue and stopped working... itsJooJoo 195 — 8y

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FiredDusk 1466

8 years ago

Well when changing to 1,000,000 that uses a Number Value or Int Value. But if you are wanting to change it to 1M or 1B then you use a string value.

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