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Re: random number generator oddity


On 4-Dec-08, at 5:53 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Why divide the length of number by 4? You are generating individual numbers that range from 1 digit in length to 10 - so I'm having trouble seeing the significance of 4.

Well I looked at the code again and I now see that the individual array elements are 4 long - but again that means that truncation comes into play and even if the values generated were truly random, the results of this program would not be.

Jon Paris

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