Talk:Ceil

seems like this function doesn't like parentheses and expressions that contain other functions.

set dummy to player.getav sneak 
set result to ceil dummy / 25

works fine

set result to ceil player.getav sneak / 25

returns "Unknown variable getav"

set result to ceil ( player.getav sneak / 25 )

returns "Missing parameter float"

--JOG 06:45, 21 August 2006 (EDT)

afaik, all functions behave like that. It's not something specific to ceil.

--Timeslip 08:13, 21 August 2006 (EDT)

--JOG 09:35, 21 August 2006 (EDT): Uhm... Yes of course, forget this ;)

JOG 14:18, 21 August 2006 (EDT): No, actually it still doesn't do what I want:

set floatvar to 0.55
set shortvar to ceil 11 * floatvar - 5

returns 1 instead of 2 so it's most likely compiled to ceil(11)* floatvar - 5

set floatvar to 0.55
set shortvar to ceil ( 11 * floatvar - 5 )

won't compile ("Missing parameter float"). This makes the function a bit useless for me, because I don't want to use a second dummy-float, just to set the ceiled variable into a short. I'd rather use:

set floatvar to 0.55
set shortvar to 11 * floatvar - 4.01

Another example:

short x ; = 3
short y ; = 2 

set x to y * x / 1.9           

Will set x to 3:

2 * 3 / 1.9 = 3.16 => truncated to 3

set x to y * ceil ( x / 1.9 )

Would set x to 4:

3 / 1.9 = 1.58 => ceiled to 2

2 * 2 = 4