From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-15T01:33:04+09:00
Subject: Re: lib - generating a list of random number

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Josselin wrote:

> I try to generate an array of N random numbers in range between 2 integers 
> min and max
> but I don't understand very well  how to coordinate the sue of srand and 
> rand..
> is there an already written function for that ?  and btw is there any place 
> to find such useful functions ?
>
> thanks
>
> joss
>
>
>

harp:~ > cat a.rb
n, max, min = 42, 10, 6
p Array.new(n).map{ rand((max - min) + 1) + min}


harp:~ > ruby a.rb
[6, 8, 8, 10, 9, 7, 6, 8, 9, 7, 10, 10, 7, 7, 9, 9, 6, 9, 10, 6, 8, 10, 6, 9, 7, 8, 8, 10, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10, 7, 9, 6, 6, 8, 8, 10, 9, 7]



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