Lerp vs math approach

[Monkey4TL]

What is the difference between lerp and math.Approach?

What situations should you use one or the other

Thanks in advacnce

[aftokinito]

[QUOTE=Monkey4TL;51093424]What is the difference between lerp and math.Approach?

What situations should you use one or the other

Thanks in advacnce[/QUOTE]

Lerp steands for Linear Interpolation, which is an algorithm used to generate intermediate "fake" points between "real" data points in order to fit curves:
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_interpolation[/url]

The math.Approach function is just an increment function with a conditional return:
[url]https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/math/Approach[/url]