From: Warren Brown <wkb@...>
Date: 2003-07-29T06:28:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Generating random numbers?

Harry,

> Can someone remind me of the name for the
> class/method for generating random numbers?

    Would you believe.......   rand?

    Kernel#rand takes one optional parameter that if 0 (the default) returns
a Float x such that 0 <= x < 1, and if not zero, returns an Integer x such
that 0 <= x <= parameter.  Use Kernel#srand to seed the random number
generator.

    I hope this helps!

    - Warren Brown