"normalizing" a value
random832 at fastmail.us
random832 at fastmail.us
Wed Jul 1 21:27:36 EDT 2015
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015, at 20:12, bvdp wrote:
> Not sure what this is called (and I'm sure it's not normalize). Perhaps
> "scaling"?
>
> Anyway, I need to convert various values ranging from around -50 to 50 to
> an 0 to 12 range (this is part of a MIDI music program). I have a number
> of places where I do:
>
> while x < 0: x += 12
> while x >= 12: x -= 12
And this gives you what you want? With e.g. 13=1, 14=2, 22=10, 23=11,
24=0, 25 = 1, etc. Seems unusual that that's what you would want.
Also note this gives an 0 to 11 range for the results, not 0 to 12.
Anyway, x %= 12 will give the same results.
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