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Re: 32-bit random numbers

• Posted by Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at pandora.be> Jul 05, 2004
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> return remainder(x, floor(n)) + 1

There might be a bug in here: you want a random number between 1 and n, so n
should also be a possible value.
If x is n, remainder(x, floor(n)) will return 0 instead of n: n can never be the
result of remainder(x, floor(n)).
I think you can solve this by changing it to: remainder(x + 1, floor(n)).

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