Re: A86: random numbers
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Re: A86: random numbers
_randint is in "ti86und.inc" Also, CONVOP1 has to be in caps.
Akshay Dhalwala wrote:
> thank you very much. is _randint in any include files, or do i have to
> define it myself?
>
> akshay
> http://akdjr.freeservers.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
> To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 5:15 PM
> Subject: Re: A86: random numbers
>
> >
> > In a message dated 5/5/99 8:05:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > akdjr@SoftHome.net writes:
> >
> > > hi
> > > sorry to bother everyone with random numbers again, its just that i
> > recently
> > > lost all of my email (plus 40 or so other programs because of
> > Half-life....)
> > > including the ones on random numbers.
> > > i was looking for a routine that could generate a random (or
> pseudorandom)
> > > number that would generate a number between a lower bound and an upper
> > bound.
> > > for example- if 1 is in a and 14 is in b, then the routine should
> generate
> > a
> > > number between 1 and 14 inclusive. does anyone know of such a routine?
> or
> > > does someone know how i could make one? (i would need help step by step
> > > though.....). also if it involves ops, then i would need help on those
> as
> > > well.
> > > thanks a million
> >
> >
> > well, if you don't want to use the r register (which doesn't give very
> random
> > stuff), then the ops are a good way of doing it.
> >
> > this is a routine which returns in a a random number between a and b. it
> > uses the system call _randint which returns in OP1 a random integer
> between
> > OP1 and OP2.
> >
> > _randint equ $5544
> >
> > Rand:
> > call _SetXXOP1 ;OP1=a (lower bound)
> > ld a,b
> > call _SetXXOP2 ;OP2=a (upper bound)
> > call _randint ;get random number between OP1 and OP2
> > jp _convOP1 ;put random number in a and return
> >
> >
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