From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T10:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Random Number Stuff

David Stanislaus wrote:
> How would you create a random number generator thats limited to a
> specific rang? say
> 
> 1930 - 1950
> 
> Thanks

Observe that Kernel#rand accepts an argument. If present and not 0, then 
rand returns numbers >= 0.0 and < the argument. So

x = rand(20)

will always return a number n such that 0.0 <= n < 20. All you have to 
do is add 1930 to it:

x = 1930 + rand(20)

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