From: Henry Maddocks <henryj@...>
Date: 2007-01-07T06:43:54+09:00
Subject: Re: HOW-TO produce random numbers within a range?

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On 7/01/2007, at 8:02 AM, Rodrigo Bermejo wrote:

> def rand(min,max)
>   until min < r=old_rand(max); end
>   return r
> end


Don't do this. It is *really* inefficient. Compare these...

10.times do |x|
     p rand(10000000,10000005) # Your new slow rand
end


10.times do |x|
	p rand(5) + 10000000 # old rand
end
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