Wait a minute. Does gimkit use 32 bit integers? Because if so, I know the max cap for things
Did you read #1?
-(2^1024) to 2^1024 exclusive is 1024 bits.
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Bump.
Something interesting I found.
When I use these blocks, something interesting happens.
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I did that incorrect on purpose ā©ļø
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Also, I found a use for this. If youāre using a pseudo currency system with a property, you can set the property to infinity and the player can purchase as much as they want.
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makes sense, because 0/0 is undefined, or not a number (technically every number, but iām not going down that path)
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Ok, thanks eiqie [new nickname :0]
I discovered something else. When you use the create text with block, it displays āinfinityā and not ā.
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hey @InkyDarkBird the image you posted here is deleted
can you fix it if you want to?
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Are we still researching this is my main question
I have a question, and that is that instead of using infinity ā, why not just not impose a limit on the player?
In code, I always try to stay away from setting an arbitrary number as a limit because usually thatās prone to failure or isnāt the most efficient. I think that instead of infinity, which is a strange number to deal with, itās better to just let the player spend cash or refill gadgets as much as they want, instead of giving them infinite cash.
Sort of that in games, when you see something like āYou now have infinite of x resourceā itās just taken away that as a currency, leaving it free to be used. The game isnāt trying to take one away from infinity every time you use that resource. It just knows not to do anything.
I guess what Iām trying to say is I see little use for this in terms of actually making games, rather itās a lot neater in terms of seeing Gimkitās thresholds and limits.
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So, thereās not really a point in having this open is what youāre saying.
I meanā¦ I think it serves some theoretical use and is a good point of reference, but I donāt see a whole lot of practical use and also I feel like itās been solved, to some extent.
I mean. They made infinity.
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(got brought back to this topic cuz of a notification and got interested in it again)
so lets step back and take a philosphical approach
infinity is a concept right? but it is both nothing and yet everything correct?
so lets say infinity is a line across a graph continuing for what seems like forever
and even computers cannot process it because either an overflow error is provided or infinity is in itās place and to genuinely understand something you would have to break it apart first right? then lets break apart infinity or otherwise āstop infinityā but how would we do so using just our basic math function and etc? if it is not defined? well what do you do when you find something completely new to you or mankind? you define it yourself so this bring us back to infinity as a variable but lets take a guess that the reason we cannot calculate infinity is really in the name itself it is constant ever-changing infinity times almost like random generation but on a far more larger scale
but anyways I have to go computerās bout to die and my brain still has lot more theories to share :c
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I have Been summoned too, Infinity is a thing on my mind again due to it being on your mind
1/0 is in fact infinity(not positive nor negative, look up riemann sphere)
But i dont really think there would be any use of gimkit creative infinity, in normal computers, when a variable passes integer limits, it will go to the minimum, (i.e. a short int set to 32768 will go to -32767), this has some purposes, but apparently when this happens in gkc, it just returns a text, and when i tried it in gkc, i did not find anything special with the text, its just in there to tell you its over the int limit
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Well in real life like whatās the point of infinity mathmatically if it is just a number that can be any number and goes on forever with no point unlike Pi that we can figure out its numbers
why is infinity even neededā¦
you cannot turn anything IRL in math into infinity Pi is as close as it gets BUT as said we can figure out Piās numbers
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let a teenager have his fun lol
but Iāll check out this riemenn sphere thingy
but Iāll keep trying to theorize stuff
but since infinity is not defined in an actual mathematical language we cannot do anything with it yet until we actually make it mean something and not just a concept
after all itās true value is not set in stone :3
infinity is nothing until we define the concept of everything
of which relates to fate somewhat but that would mean true random generation would be somewhere in infinity or i suppose but what can you really do with a singular piece of a puzzle? lol
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it is infact, undefined! this is because 0 isnāt postive nor negative so its essentially dividing something into groups of nothing. which isnt physically possible.
its still just a concept, therefore that equation is realistically unsolvable (hince the term undefined)
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There you go
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