(Solved) How to get every 50th of a value

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Hi i need help because i suck at lua and math

basically i want to make my code do something when a certain inst.value goes to 50 or 100 or 150 (basically every increment of 50 triggers the code) but i have no idea how to do this. i looked at the math library for lua it goes way over my head 

Edited December 10, 2021 by . . .

[IronHunter]

You can check if remainder is 0 using the modulo operator.

https://www.educba.com/lua-modulo/

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E.g.

if inst.value % 50 == 0 then

As for automatically checking it getting updated, I am not sure of a easy way to do that. I know components have code to automatically check if data updates to call a function.

The usual method is probably to check whenever your code is relevant and attempts to run. Either via listenforevent, periodictasks, componentupdates, as part of a function call.

If somebody else knows more that would be helpful.

Edited December 9, 2021 by IronHunter

[CarlZalph]

15 hours ago, IronHunter said:

As for automatically checking it getting updated, I am not sure of a easy way to do that.

If there's no specific function that updates it and polling with a timer isn't suitable, then there's the metatable proxy hook wherein __newindex + __index is used to forbid a key being set onto a table as it sets it onto another hidden one by proxy, and uses this hidden table to retrieve the value back out.  Would let it run functions whenever the value changes.

a = {}
a_proxy = {}
a_mt = {
  __index = function(t, k)
    if k == "power"
    then
      return rawget(a_proxy, k)
    end
    return rawget(t, k)
  end,
  __newindex = function(t, k, v)
    if k == "power"
    then
      print("New power:", v, v % 50 == 0)
      return rawset(a_proxy, k, v)
    end
    return rawset(t, k, v)
  end,
}
setmetatable(a, a_mt)
a.power = 40
a.power = a.power + 10