not quite understanding the MATH function

[Rhatidbwoy]

I got the last thing that you have said with the word and byte. Was reviewing that. The other thing is that I will have to change the value of 1-2 to something with higher values.


All to what I am trying to do is create a means to control a servo. The time constant that I was trying to work with first is that of 1-2 sec. That will have to change in means to 1-11 I guess. the only reason to that guess is the tenth place there are so many given posibility that will end up between 1-2 with .1 increment. So I guess then I would have to make the appropriate changes to the equation.

In other words I was using 0 to 255 as my input(y-axis) and 1-2 as my result(x-axis) coming to the equation of what I have there for my normal eq. and my reverse eq. I would just have to figure things out for my x-axis as being 1-11 rather than 1-2 . This whole thing does make sense. This then leave me to further refining the program to get that of the 1-2sec with IF..THEN and PULOUT. Not to bad.


The other thing to is that I did some reviewing and found out to what you are talking about with the shifts. I do have to THANK YOU. on the side note you taught me a few thing along with this forum. Yes there are people that are willing to help, but I believe the power of understanding is learning it. I can say that I did learn something and it is not just this problem but to what this forum has to offer.

[Kamikaze47]

Rhatidbwoy: No problem at all. I'm glad to help.

What you could do is apply a scaler to your result. For example, instead of seconds, work it out in milliseconds (scaler of 1000). Or if you dont need it that accurate, use a smaller scaler like 32 for example. Its good to choose a scaler that is a power of 2 (i.e. 2, 4, 8, 16, etc...) becuase you can multiply by these numbers very quickly and easily using the shifting you have learned.