Re: TIB: Random Number Generation Different From The One Before
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Re: TIB: Random Number Generation Different From The One Before
RandInt(1,24) and iPart (24*rand+1) both take about the same time
(tried it), I'm just used to using rand because I started programming
on an '82 and it doesn't have a randInt commant. Another useless fact.
Chris: Sorry about the comment about reading the manual, wasn't called
for.
Philipp Keller
>Not just that, but it's also slow as heck; I know, I've used it.
>(and I do read the manual, Kellers, I just haven't done it in a
while.... my
>mistake, sorry about that!)
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>--Chris
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: The Garth Johnson <gbjohnson@yahoo.com>
>To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 9:04 PM
>Subject: Re: TIB: Random Number Generation Different From The One
Before
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>>>
>>> If you do want a random integer (on the 86) why not use randint?
>>The syntax
>>> is randint(lower bound,upper bound) and it returns an integer
>>between lower
>>> and upper inclusive. So you type randint(1,24)->C.
>>> PJC
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>>wouldn't that give the possibility of having some numbers repeat?
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