From: jamiethehutt <jamie@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T23:45:06+09:00
Subject: Generating a random floating point number

I'm a Ruby newbie and I'm wondering if there's a simple way to generate
a random floating point number, I want to generate numbers between 0
and about 2-3.6 with the max changing each time (an example max would
be 3.26861475366199).

I'm hoping there's something simpler than generating an integer
(rand(3)) and then generating a point (rand(0.268)) and adding them
together...

Thanks for any advice you can give!

(I'm really loving Ruby, I rewrote some of my university Java work and
programs that took hours to write in Java were done in minutes!)