Steven:
Thanks for the suggestion. You were correct. The divide by zero error
was not in the random number generation but was in fact in a later
handler where in fact division does occur.
I must say that I like your random generator much better than mine.
Avoids the repeat loop and potential problems there. I don't follow what
you meant by "If you need to include both bounds in the range of values,
use random(30000) instead of random(30000)-1." Do you mean that if I
want to sometimes actually get the preset gupper as a value I use
"random(3000)"?
Thanks
Rick
you wrote---
I can't see anywhere you can get a divide by zero error in this script,
unless there is a bug in the random function. But I suspect there is an
easier way to do this:
function myRandom lower,upper
return trunc((random(30000)-1)/30000 * (upper - lower)) + lower
-- returns a whole number R, lower <= R < upper
end myRandom
30000 isn't a particularly special number, I just pick it because it is
large, thus giving myRandom a fairly high resolution.
If you need to include both bounds in the range of values, use
random(30000) instead of random(30000)-1.
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