Thank you, the circuit is somewhat similar to some in the thread, it's a 6 combinator build that uses bitwise operations. The amount of combinator is nessary to handle all value positive and negative for all signals. It's a bit more generic than the more compact builds, but has a wider range of acce...

beginner friendly circuit network cookbook focused on practical use advanced level combinator tutorial focused on explanations of technical components. What i like in this approach is that it makes it clear that the wiki is not the place to show advanced-example of practical use. Those would be ext...

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=89523

He knows about factorio too, i think the CS go training is necessary to get some lithium or something.

Perhaps you can advice me how to make it more durable against a user ? advice2.jpg Stop a counter is interesting idea, so you postpone one condition. Hmmm, I can give it a try. Measure heat is an option, but for different plant. Make controls based on level of heat, not steam. I have this plant in ...

Latest Update: Version 3 released. The top post updated. - better understanding of liquid flows allowed me reduce number of Steam storage tanks from 8 to 4, ( while all the features are unharmed) - one turbine removed (84 to 83) to reduce overspend steam. This reduce chance of core overheating from...

Are you using some mods ?
Do you have a save game ?
Does it happens again if you restart another game ?

This is a way to use every single bit of some value. Unfortunately, you can only transmit the information that ore x is needed, but not how much, since you use only 1 bit for this information. Factorio works a bit different, in my opinion. You can have a value for every ingame material at no comput...

[...]first extracting, then processing every bit on its own.[...] simulating how a computer will process every single bit. I used the computer to do the operations. I was treating the combinator as processor register and acted as if i'm doing assembly programming the processor. I used the number st...

That's using less combinators true, but it's doing a bit different thing if one wants to nitpick :D You first turn the number A in its ones complement using a XOR-1 calling it N, then you add 1 to this number calling it T, and then you use the bitshift on all intermediate number A N and T at the sam...

I could ask you to make it even more readable. add spaces and use coloured concrete for lamps background. Although we had variable byte definition in far history, the size of byte is standardized for couple of years. You might ask why 4 bits sections are important? well becouse Hex numbers. ;) Ther...

Also for something constructive the speed of the spidertron is in the wiki, saying 'does anyone knows the exact speed of a spidertron' is ridiculous because it depends on the number of exoskeletons and on the terrain spidertron is walking on. In an attempt to cut on sterile argument later, Spidertr...

thank you I had not thought of using forum search, I now know i need to document again x)

Edit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_shift

The time period correspond to after the mentionned ups wars was had gone inactive, so it would seem it is the conclusion of the pending (at the time) PR. I'm willing to believe/hope it is better for UPS , however the source doesn't mention precisely enough for me to infer the cost in UPS is now nece...

Thank you for all the clarifications ! I was made unable to answer during 24h by moderators for reason not in relation with this topic; for wich i apologize because it may have given the impression that i was even more confused about the subject than i was and maybe you felt like you didn't explaine...

If you want to design something that depends on the bit-representation of the values, you need to think in binary values. And you need to know the representation of negative numbers (two's-complement) and why this is used. And if you cannot think in binary (I cannot, too many digits), you need to w...

The "overflow magic" in my example happens when 1 << 31 = -2147483648 = binary 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 is added to a value with binary 1xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx. You do (this is binary, only 0 or 1. 1+1 is 10): I figured this out that's where you can multiply...

[Moderated by Koub : response to now moderated part of previous post] Also for something constructive the speed of the spidertron is in the wiki, saying 'does anyone knows the exact speed of a spidertron' is ridiculous because it depends on the number of exoskeletons and on the terrain spidertron i...

This one i expected to be possible since it was mentionned in the other thread that the multiplier was made obsolete due to the introduction of bit operations. I think with your explanation i understand how it functions and added the 4rth combinator because there was no 4 combinator version yet ! H...

1) This can be fixed by rewiring the constant combinators. One to top and bottom; the other to middle and bottom, using the other color 2) 1 delay combinator will do, correct. However there is a 5 combinator version for pairwise multiplication: (a^2 + b^2) / -2 + (a+b)^2 / 2. (No pictures as I'm no...

1)The original computes "red * green" while yours needs both red and green wires from two outputs. 2)Your version has an incorrect output for one tick whenever the input changes, because the "each*-1" combinator changes one tick later than the "each^2" combinators. 3)F...