HTML formulae in API

I'm having trouble getting JavaScript to calculate the ability score formulas. Currently, (ceil((15-15)/1e100)*ceil((15-15)/2)*((ceil((15-30)/1e100)-1)*(-1)))+(ceil((15-30)/1e100)*(8))+2 resolves to 0, even when I try and "roll" it using the send chat function. At the very minimum, it should resolve to 2. Any ideas?

Charles H. said: (ceil((15-15)/1e100)*ceil((15-15)/2)*((ceil((15-30)/1e100)-1)*(-1)))+(ceil((15-30)/1e100)*(8))+2 1e100 is a very large number. Are you sure that's correct for your formula? (As opposed to 1d100, which is a 100-sided die.) I suspect the dice engine is being tripped up by the scientific notation.

It's 1e100 because I need to reduce the number to between 0 and 1, so ceil returns 1 if over a certain value and 0 if under a certain value. This is necessary because in Heroes Unlimited, ability scores provide a bonus if over 15, but don't provide a penalty if under that value. This means a standard slope/intercept formula can't be used to calculate the bonus, like in D&D.

What are you doing exactly, that is producing 0?

Use {0, math}kh1 for figuring out the bonus. Anything less than zero will default to zero.

The formula I gave is in the custom character sheet and is used for determining ability score bonuses. When I grab that value in a macro and pass it to my script, it doesn't grab 2, like it should in this case, it grabs the formula. I tried "rolling" it, using SendChat and grabbing the value that comes out, but that only returned 0. Most things I try that attempts to evaluate that string either returns 0, NaN, or crashes the API.

This works for me: sendChat('','[[(ceil((15-15)/1e100)*ceil((15-15)/2)*((ceil((15-30)/1e100)-1)*(-1)))+(ceil((15-30)/1e100)*(8))+2]]',function(r){ AaronsDebugFunction(r); }); and produces this: [ . { . . "who": "", . . "type": "general", . . "content": "$$[[1]]", . . "playerid": "API", . . "avatar": false, . . "inlinerolls": { . . . "1": { . . . . "expression": "(ceil((15-15)/1e100)*ceil((15-15)/2)*((ceil((15-30)/1e100)-1)*(-1)))+(ceil((15-30)/1e100)*(8))+2", . . . . "results": { . . . . . "type": "V", . . . . . "rolls": [ . . . . . . { . . . . . . . "type": "M", . . . . . . . "expr": "(ceil((15-15)/1e+100)*ceil((15-15)/2)*((ceil((15-30)/1e+100)-1)*(-1)))+(ceil((15-30)/1e+100)*(8))+2" . . . . . . } . . . . . ], . . . . . "resultType": "M", . . . . . "total": 2 . . . . } . . . } . . } . } ] Which has the correct value of 2 .

Figured out the problem. It wasn't with the HTML formula, it was with my input validation. I had if(techbonus = "FAIL") instead of if(techbonus == "FAIL"). %&$*&