Taking various digits from various counts and combining them into a single number.

[Odd_Mutant]

Hey, I'm trying to simulate a Abacus and use it to solve randomly generated questions. But I'm stuck on this one thing I want to do:

Let's say I have a 3 column Abacus (it's a 10 column one I'm working on but I want to make this short, ignore that a 3 column Abacus is useless.) There are three counters tracking three column variables. Variable A is at "3", Variable B is at "6", and Variable C is at "8". I want to combine these numbers into the number "368" (ABC), and not as the number "17" (A+B+C). By doing this I think I can write a pretty efficient way of comparing the results of the abacus and the answer. How can I go about this?

[chrilley]

I'm sure there is a proper mathematical way of doing this but I suck at numbers so I have another solution until a math wizard comes along!

Basically I would give an Active object four values(a, b, c, d) and set them as 3, 6, 8 and leave d as 0 for now, this value will be the result. Then in the Event Editor do this Action at whatever Condition you'd like to trigger the "calculation":

("Active"): Set Alterable Value D to Val(Str$(a( "Active" )) + Str$(b( "Active" )) + Str$(c( "Active" )))

This should return the numbers as 368 to value d instead of 17. Basically what happens is that Fusion has to treat the numbers as it would strings. And strings don't add the same way values do.

For instance 3+6+8 = 17 while "a" + "b" + "c"= "abc"

So what we're doing is converting the values to strings temporarily and add them together into "abc". When we're done we convert the result back into our new value.

[MuddyMole]

( 100 * a ) + ( 10 * b ) + c