Cannot get percentage?

I got the counter object and I want to find the percentage of a value. So for this I simply do the equation a/b*100.

The problem is, whenever I do this the counter remains as 0...and it's not meant to! I even did this in my calculator and it worked normally, Try it yourself! Why doesn't it work with MMF2?

You have to force float calculations by including a number with a decimal point.

Try a/b*100.0

Netninja is right, but you need to make sure MMF understands that the values are floating point values before the division occurs.

Try ((a*1.0)/(b*1.0))*100

just adding 0.0 at first should be enough.

a*100.0/b is the simplest...

the ".0" forces it to use decimal places in the calculation, and the ordering means you don't have to add any extra "*1.0" or "+0.0".

Taking this a bit farther... is there a way to show only two digits to the right of the decimal?

floor(NUMBER * 100) / 100.0

Won't this simply drop the value's RIGHT of the decimal point?

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Originally Posted by Tuna

Won't this simply drop the value's RIGHT of the decimal point?

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well unless i screwed something up:

1.23456 -> 123.456 -> 123 -> 1.23

so yes it technically does get rid of them but i don't think mmf has a printf/sprintf-like function

Thanks for your assistance xyzzy...

I'm doing Floor(hits/tries)

or more accurately

set text to str$(floor(value("hits")*100.0/value("tries")))+"%"

I was getting values with 5 decimal places to the right of the decimal without the floor function. With it, I'm getting whole percentages only.