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aberration.zip
Filename aberration.zip (Download)
Title Aberration?
Description See the read me for full details. In short, this program does something that Im pretty sure it shouldn't. See the text file.
Author Wesley Cowan (polar_ice_cat@hotmail.com)
Category TI-83/84 Plus BASIC Graphics Programs
File Size 985 bytes
File Date and Time Sun Jul 7 13:12:58 2002
Documentation Included? Yes

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Review by  Joe Pena
Reviewed on 2004-04-17
It's not an aberration at all!! The rand() function is indeed totally random, as you were able to notice with the "Normal" part, the one which did not include reciprocals. Here's your code:

Lbl 1
Pt-On(1/rand-1,1/rand-1)
Pt-On(-1/rand+1,1/rand-1)
Pt-On(1/rand-1,-1/rand+1)
Pt-On(-1/rand+1,-1/rand+1)
getKey->X
If X=21 : Then
Pause
Goto M
End

What is actually happening is that when you get a random number (say the calculator gave you .7980701009), you divide that number by one (which gives you 1.253022759), then add a one (that is 2.253022759). When you do the same for the Y-axis, you get that coordinate for either the X-axis or the Y-axis. You see, the calculator choose a random number for each digit of the rand() function, which means that there's a 1 out of 10 chance for you to get a .0xxxxxxxx and even small chance for you to get a .00xxxxxx. So because you are dividing 1 by the number, you are more likely to get a number closer to zero. Now, it's already difficult to get a small number in the X-axis but to get another small number for the Y-axis is even tougher.

So you see, it's not the calculator's fault, itÂ’s what all random functions (rand(), randInt(), randM(), etc...) do.


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