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coradi
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How works Random intern?
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January 18, 2019, 10:13:54 pm »
How works the Random function?
Is it the same system as srand() from C?
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Re: How works Random intern?
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January 18, 2019, 10:53:02 pm »
srand in C is not Random in pascal.
Srand in C is RandSeed in Pascal
Random will return any number from 0 to the number you input.
if you call Random without any number then it assumes the value 1.0 and there for the return
value will be any number starting from 0 to .99999999
So you could use that to multiply a REAL number
Result := 10000 * Random;
That will return a number between 0..9.999; and it will come with fractons for example
3.56789 etc
If you supply a number that is not a REAL then it becomes a integer type on return..
Random(100) will return any number from 0 to 99
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furious programming
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Re: How works Random intern?
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January 18, 2019, 11:59:00 pm »
You can check how
Random
works, just use the
Find declaration
option and analyze the code of the
genrand_MT19937
function. It is used by every
Random
function, no matter what data type returns.
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