Re: how to generate random negative numbers
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:26:06 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
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> $RANDOM gives a random number. It has a relatively large range, I think
> 0-32K maybe even larger.
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> Examples:
> echo $((RANDOM % 6 + 1)) # Rolls a "normal" die[1].
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> [1] But not a fair one. If the $RANDOM function is completely random, so
> that over the "long tail" all values show up with the same frequency, the
> die will be slightly biased low.
Do you mean that it will be biased low since the range (presumably)
doesn't end on a number of the form 6n-1, or something else?
Celejar
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