block changes

All the blocks that deal primarily with numbers, such as the Math, Compare, and Range blocks, have been updated to work with floating-point numbers. Beyond those changes, a few blocks have been modified in ways that may be less obvious. Here is a summary of those changes:

  • The Math block supports square root and absolute value operations.

  • The Number to Text block will show the number rounded the number to two places.

  • The File Access block will round a number to two places before writing it to a file.

  • The Switch block will round an input value to the nearest integer before matching it against the list of conditions. Even though floating-point numbers are used in NXT-G 2.0, the list of conditions still only supports integer values.

  • The Rotation ...

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