Re: tlug: Get your Bumpers ready!

[kls@example.com (Ken Schwarz)]

On 17-Nov-97 Craig Oda wrote:
> How does one get really random numbers in a certain range under
>Linux, preferrably with Java?

The Math package has a pseudo-random random() method which you call
like this:

    double d = Math.random(); // 0.0 .. 1.0

The book I'm looking at (Just Java) seems to imply that the range to
include both 0.0 and 1.0, which is a little odd. I would expect the
range to be 0.0 <= d < 1.0 or 0.0 < d <= 1.0.  If the boundary
conditions matter, I'd look it up to be sure.

- Ken
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