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Quick Help with a PI formula
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Recluee Stormfury
Take The Bait.
Insidious.
#1 - 2013-04-02 04:22:19 UTC
This may be a simple formula but i cannot figure it out! Alright to make it simple, i'm converting water and electrolytes into coolant, and i'm trying to figure out how much coolant i will make.

I need a formula to figure out this:
if i have 980 water and 450 electrolytes and it takes 40 water and 40 electrolytes to make 4 coolant, how do i figure out how much coolant i can make?

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is a simple problem, just needed some help
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#2 - 2013-04-02 04:28:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Zhilia Mann
Take the lower input number (450) and apply the reduction ratio between input and output (10:1). Round down to the nearest multiple of 4 and you get:

450/10 = 45 rounds down to 44.

Edit: right, ratio was off. 11 cycles is 55, not 44.
Gabber359
Infinite Point
The Initiative.
#3 - 2013-04-02 12:51:00 UTC
Recluee: I cannot believe you are that dense. This is basic maths. Maybe you are drunk. I can forgive you for that.
Also, the output Is FIVE coolant from an Adv. factory. Not 4.

Zhilia: That has to be the most ********, overly complicated reply to a simple problem that I've ever seen. Go back to your troll cave.

Answer:
Step 1: Take the lowest amount of the two materials you have, since that will be the limiting factor
Step 1.5: 40 Electro + 40 Water = 5 Coolant
SO
Step 2: 450 Electro divided by 40 = Enough material for 11.25 cycles in the Advanced Factory. Rounded off to 11

11 Cycles x 5 Coolant = 55 Coolant. Tada.

The only thing I fear, is running out of beer !

Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#4 - 2013-04-02 13:08:58 UTC
Actually the question is irrelevant since depletion of resource extraction amounts will start to occur almost immediately, thus the numbers will be most indeed wrong in a short while.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Recluee Stormfury
Take The Bait.
Insidious.
#5 - 2013-04-02 13:31:56 UTC
Gabber359 wrote:
Recluee: I cannot believe you are that dense. This is basic maths. Maybe you are drunk. I can forgive you for that.
Also, the output Is FIVE coolant from an Adv. factory. Not 4.

Zhilia: That has to be the most ********, overly complicated reply to a simple problem that I've ever seen. Go back to your troll cave.

Answer:
Step 1: Take the lowest amount of the two materials you have, since that will be the limiting factor
Step 1.5: 40 Electro + 40 Water = 5 Coolant
SO
Step 2: 450 Electro divided by 40 = Enough material for 11.25 cycles in the Advanced Factory. Rounded off to 11

11 Cycles x 5 Coolant = 55 Coolant. Tada.



Yea, i knew it was an easy formula, no i wasn't drunk but i had been up for almost 2 days without sleep :P I just completely went stupid last night, but thanks for the help :D
Gabber359
Infinite Point
The Initiative.
#6 - 2013-04-02 18:40:25 UTC
Recluee Stormfury wrote:
Gabber359 wrote:
Recluee: I cannot believe you are that dense. This is basic maths. Maybe you are drunk. I can forgive you for that.
Also, the output Is FIVE coolant from an Adv. factory. Not 4.

Zhilia: That has to be the most ********, overly complicated reply to a simple problem that I've ever seen. Go back to your troll cave.

Answer:
Step 1: Take the lowest amount of the two materials you have, since that will be the limiting factor
Step 1.5: 40 Electro + 40 Water = 5 Coolant
SO
Step 2: 450 Electro divided by 40 = Enough material for 11.25 cycles in the Advanced Factory. Rounded off to 11

11 Cycles x 5 Coolant = 55 Coolant. Tada.



Yea, i knew it was an easy formula, no i wasn't drunk but i had been up for almost 2 days without sleep :P I just completely went stupid last night, but thanks for the help :D


Ah that certainly wouldn't help :) Glad I could be of assistance, heh.

The only thing I fear, is running out of beer !