how to generate random number between the range -10 to 10

2003-03-06 Thread kenwin charles
dear sir, is it possible you can assist me on how to generate random number between the range -10 to 10. kenwin

Re: how to generate random number between the range -10 to 10

2003-03-06 Thread James Taylor
On Thu 06 Mar, Andrew Green wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kenwin charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible you can assist me on how to generate random number between the range -10 to 10. my $num = int(rand 21) - 10; Yes, but please bear in mind that the RISC OS port

Re: how to generate random number between the range -10 to 10

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Green
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a bug in UnixLib upon which RISC OS Perl is dependent, that causes the random number to be generated incorrectly. There was a thread of discussion about the problem on this very mailing list a while back. Thanks