# Need some help math

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**Created:** [August 31, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-some-help-math/269744 "2008-08-31T23:37:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![geestring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@geestring](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geestring)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-some-help-math/269744/1 "2008-08-31T23:37:44Z")

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I was never good at math.

but what I want is to have my links appear to be going into the distance. Using scaling.

now I can have link.scaleX = linkNum \* 0.5; Where linkNum is the counter for each link 0,1,2…etc…

but what if I want to scale it backwards. 0 being the biggest. Right now 0 is the smallest.