General ⇒ Counters as Variables

[nikolapoljak]

Hi,

Let's say I have two counters set up in a file that do their counting correctly. Printing out a total value of a counter is simple, but how could I print out a ratio of two totals (something like \total{counta}/\total{countb}) to a specific number of decimal points? Also, how could I print the value of a counter divided by some pre-specified number?

I've looked around to find this, but didn't have any luck.

Thanks!

[nikolapoljak]

Solved - more or less, by using packages totcount and fp and by using \csname. Couldn't find a simpler workaround.

After filling in counters countA and countB, defined whit \newtotcount I can do this.

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\FPdiv\intresult{\csname thecountA\endcsname}{\csname thecountB\endcsname}
\FPround\final{\intresult}{2}

I get the final solution rounded off to two decimals. Writing it out in text is simple, something like this.

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The result I got is \final.

Of course, if say countB gets filled after the calculation written here, run LaTeX twice so that the \totcount does it's thing.

[cgnieder]

The fp package would also have been one of my suggestions. Other possibilities for calculating real numbers are

• the calculator package
• the pgf package
• the l3fp module of the l3kernel

Regards