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Karl Richter edited comment on LANG-1382 at 3/2/18 4:52 PM:
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> Did you know "Commons RNG"?
Now, that you mention it... `JDKRandom` of Commons RNG provides negative and
positive values. However, there's still functionality missing to create values
in between a specified range.
was (Author: krichter):
> Did you know "Commons RNG"?
Now, that you mention it... `JDKRandom` of Commons RNG provides negative and
positive values. Imo it still makes a lot of sense to add a link to the Commons
Lang Javadoc.
> Provide method to generate random numbers without range restriction for all
> numeric types
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> Key: LANG-1382
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1382
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Karl Richter
> Priority: Major
>
> `RandomUtils` only allows to generate random numbers of different numeric
> types (`byte`, `short`, `double`, etc.) within the range 0 (inclusive) and
> the maximum value of the respective type. It'd be nice if there were methods
> to create random numbers for the range between the minimal and the maximal
> value for all numeric types.
> I'm aware of workarounds like
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27976857/how-to-get-random-number-with-negative-number-in-range,
> but they're not tested and require quite some thinking which can be avoided
> (which is afaik one of the many motivations for the Apache commons libraries).
> If such methods already exist they should be definitely linked in the Javadoc
> of `RandomUtils`.
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