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numero = 47438
interpreted = N
texte = A while ago there was some discussion about using [math]ceil([RANDOMformat=float]*(randomrange))[/math] to get a random number. We were justtrying this and came up with an anomaly: including the occasional negativenumber!!! (and the negative number always is in the range -480 to -490ish.Here's our code. It looks for a RANDOM no up to 99 over 50,000 loops, andcounts the number of occurences of 1, numbers in the 90s, 0, and less thanzero.[math show=f]one_count=0[/math][math show=f]ninety_count=0[/math][math show=f]zero_count=0[/math][math show=f]minuszero_count=0[/math][loop start=1&end=50000&advance=1][text show=f]random_number=[math]ceil([RANDOMformat=float]*(99))[/math][/text][!][showif [random_number]<1][index]. [random_number]
[/showif][/!][showif [random_number]=1][mathshow=f]one_count=[one_count]+1[/math][/showif][showif [random_number]>90][mathshow=f]ninety_count=[ninety_count]+1[/math][/showif][showif [random_number]=0][mathshow=f]zero_count=[zero_count]+1[/math][/showif][showif [random_number]<0][mathshow=f]minuszero_count=[minuszero_count]+1[/math][/showif][/loop]one_count: [one_count]
ninety_count: [ninety_count]
zero_count: [zero_count]
minuszero_count: [minuszero_count]Regards,Tim-- Tim RobinsonIDFK Web Developmentstim@idfk.com.au114a/40 Yeo StreetNeutral Bay 2089AustraliaPhone +612 9908 2134Fax +612 9908 4837-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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A while ago there was some discussion about using [math]ceil([RANDOMformat=float]*(randomrange))[/math] to get a random number. We were justtrying this and came up with an anomaly: including the occasional negativenumber!!! (and the negative number always is in the range -480 to -490ish.Here's our code. It looks for a RANDOM no up to 99 over 50,000 loops, andcounts the number of occurences of 1, numbers in the 90s, 0, and less thanzero.[math show=f]one_count=0[/math][math show=f]ninety_count=0[/math][math show=f]zero_count=0[/math][math show=f]minuszero_count=0[/math][loop start=1&end=50000&advance=1][text show=f]random_number=[math]ceil([RANDOMformat=float]*(99))[/math][/text][!][showif [random_number]<1][index]. [random_number]
[/showif][/!][showif [random_number]=1][mathshow=f]one_count=[one_count]+1[/math][/showif][showif [random_number]>90][mathshow=f]ninety_count=[ninety_count]+1[/math][/showif][showif [random_number]=0][mathshow=f]zero_count=[zero_count]+1[/math][/showif][showif [random_number]<0][mathshow=f]minuszero_count=[minuszero_count]+1[/math][/showif][/loop]one_count: [one_count]
ninety_count: [ninety_count]
zero_count: [zero_count]
minuszero_count: [minuszero_count]Regards,Tim-- Tim RobinsonIDFK Web Developmentstim@idfk.com.au114a/40 Yeo StreetNeutral Bay 2089AustraliaPhone +612 9908 2134Fax +612 9908 4837-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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