SC2Mapster

You still might want to check individual sub parts such as the q^2 in case of overflow. In such a case you could clamp them to max value instead of the output of the entire thing becoming garbage.

Would it not be possible to scale down the formula? Currently it uses some pretty large numbers.

For example 440 * population * quantity supplied. So if one was to supply 1,000 people with 1,000 units you are looking at 440,000,000 which is well past the range of the SC2 fixed point. However if one were to define population in thousands of people and supply in thousands of units then one gets 440 * 1 * 1 which is 440, well within the range of the fixed point type. Obviously the constants would need to be changed depending how they were derived. If the constants end up growing then this is counter productive so not a viable solution.

One could try rounding parts of if into integers (range of -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647). However I doubt the game comes with integer square root so one would have to implement one themselves. Wikipedia has a few articles explaining. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots

Otherwise you will need some kind of custom number type with custom maths functions to process the intermediate value.

One might have to write a custom floating point or multi word fixed point library to solve such an equation. Such libraries are often used for micro controllers and other cheap/simple processors where larger or more complex dedicated maths instructions are missing. I suggest using a search engine to look for such code, there appears to be tons on GitHub with heavy reference to Wikipedia which might be adaptable to Galaxy.

What is it for? Maybe there are other solutions that achieve similar results without requiring large intermediate values. For example an iterative algorithm that approximates towards it within reasonable time and complexity.

You could try hooking up custom UI elements to the unit information panel to show these values.