What could these blocks be used for?

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Graphics engines, various calculations, rounding is INCREDIBLY useful, etc.

Like teapot said, 3d stuff requires a LOT of trig and matrices n stuff.

You could do continuous interest with e, etc.

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The round block can be used for modular functions (I used it in my timer). It can also be used for basically the opposite of modular functions (floor(x/y)). Helpful for making looping functions.

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well Rounding up would go with maybe the math you add to it so it would for example Round up 5 and it will round it

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@here stop saying that these blocks can be used for math. That’s obvious. Bear was asking about more specific uses of these blocks.

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Bro did you not read what I said above

Don’t reply if you are just going to be off topic and not contribute to the conversation. Get off if you are not going to contribute and don’t waste my time. I’m trying to learn not chat. I can tell that you clearly don’t know and are just goofing off.

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THE BLOCKS YOU JUST MENTIONED HAVE MANY USES. LET’S GO THROUGH THE LIST.

  • SQRT
    SQUARE ROOTS ARE USEFUL FOR DATA COMPRESSION, FINDING GEOMETRIC LENGTHS, ETC. THEY CAN BE USED FOR BASIC MATH, OBVIOUSLY, ESPECIALLY IF YOU NEED GRADUALLY DECAYING STUFF. I PERSONALLY USED SQUARE ROOTS IN A MOVEMENT ENGINE I WAS MAKING FOR ENERGY TO SPEED MAPPING.

  • ABS
    THIS ONE IS USEFUL FOR ANYTHING WHERE YOU HAVE A PESKY NEGATIVE NUMBER THAT YOU WANT TO GET RID OF. ABSOLUTE VALUES ARE PRETTY MUCH A SINGLE USE THING, BUT THEY’RE MUCH EASIER THAN CHECKING IF A VALUE IS NEGATIVE THEN MULTIPLYING BY -1 IF SO.

  • IM NOT SURE WHAT THE DASH IS FOR.

  • LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS/E CAN BE USED IN A NUMBER OF THINGS, AND YOU CAN EMULATE ANY LOG FUNCTION BY USING THE CHANGE OF BASE FORMULA. THEY CAN BE USED FOR CONTINUOUS COMPOUNDING INTEREST FUNCTIONS, AND MORE GENERALLY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AS A WHOLE. THEY’RE USED FOR COMBINATORICS TOO. THEY CAN BE USED WHEN TRYING TO SOLVE ANY EQUATIONS WITH VARIABLES AS EXPONENTS, WHICH IM SURE IS IMPORTANT IN SOME CASE.

  • TRIG FUNCTIONS
    YOU CAN USE THESE FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF THINGS. WHO THOUGHT 8TH GRADE MATH WOULD BE USEFUL LOL
    COMPLEX GEOMETRY IS ALWAYS USEFUL. YOU CAN FIND THE LENGTH OF A TRIANGLE’S ASYMPTOTE, FIND LENGTHS OF THINGS FOR CALCULATIONS INVOLVING COORDINATES, USE IT IN 3D OR 2D RENDERING ONCE AGAIN TO FIND DISTANCE OF THINGS, ETC. YOU CAN USE THEM FOR TRIANGULATION, TO GENERATE CIRCLES, DATA GENERATION FOR GRAPHING, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.

  • ROUNDING
    ROUNDING IS UNIMAGINABLY USEFUL IN SO MANY THINGS. GIMKIT, LIKE ANY OTHER PROGRAM, IS SUBJECT TO FLOATING POINT ERRORS, AND HAVING A 2.0000000000000004 SHOWING UP ON A GAME OVERLAY ISN’T GOING TO SEEM TOO PROFESSIONAL. AS SUCH, IF WE CONSTANTLY ROUND THINGS, WE’RE SET. WE CAN EVEN USE MULTIPLICATION TO ROUND IT TO CERTAIN DECIMALS. ROUNDING IS USEFUL IN FLOOR AND CEILING DIVISION, WHICH IS A BIG CS CONCEPT THAT COMES UP IN A LOT OF SURPRISING PLACES, AND THE LIST KEEPS GOING.

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD COMPLAIN ABOUT THE CAPS

I CANT CONTROL IT, MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS BROKEN AND I CANT MAKE LETTERS LOWERCASE. PLEASE BE PATIENT, AND PLEASE DON’T REPLY TO THIS SAYING ‘STOP USING CAPS’ OR ‘BUSTED’ OR WHATEVER YOU THINK IS FUNNY. IT ISN’T.

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The dash might be for nothing. Since usually in comparison charts the dash means that the compared item or product doesn’t have this feature. So maybe the dash is just a filler block.

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hmmm alright then uh… It could work a randomised function for rounding up

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how is that possible I cant talk in caps or it says its not a complete sentence

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What block be specific? If you don’t know just say that you don’t know.

@Gimkitsuggestor stop don’t get off topic. If you don’t have something that can contribute just keep it to yourself. YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THAT. He has a virus that corrupted his caps key that’s all.

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The “dash” function is to convert positive numbers into negative numbers and vice versa, you can use this for normalizing negative numbers or for a reverse sort and normalizing a reverse sort.

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Oh cool. Thanks for that information. @teapot So is it like the M+/- function on a calculator?

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the +/- is on a calculator

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Yeah it’s like the M+/- function on a calculator, but for variables, you can also do some weird stuff with it. (more block efficient than the regular 0 - x method)

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What weird stuff are you talking about? This is fascinating.

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OH, YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE LOL.

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This could be used to make parabolic functions that are more efficient and if you map the functions, if x < 0, set x to dash(x), it will overlap x onto itself. (this is just in theory of course)

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Should this go in Clay institution?

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It’s hard to say this isn’t at least a bit funny because I read this entire message as yelling.

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BRO ACTUALLY STOP. @here IF YOU DONT HAVE ANYTHING USEFULL TO SAY DONT SAY IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. IM FED UP. IM TRYING TO LEARN ABOUT BLOCKS AND YOU MAKE IT HARD. @Coolcaden26 LEAVE @GrapeGod ALONE!

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