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STARGÅTE wrote:

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Random=Random(25,0)
Random%10

This is no uniform distribution, because you get more numbers between 0 and 5 than numbers between 6 and 9.

Good catch about the distribution, but somewhat misleading since all the numbers possible with that code are between 0 and 5.

What blows me away is infratec's Random('Z', 'A') and Random('9', '0').

heartbone wrote:What blows me away is infratec's Random('Z', 'A').

When specifying a character using single quotes, it translates into the ASCII (integer) form.

Wow that's good to know Mistrel, I had missed that information.
I surely need to increase my screen font size, because I now see the mod and not a divide above.
Another miss.
So never mind about the math incorrection STARGÅTE.

> 99 out of a 100 flips would break any casino

Yep, but that doesn't mean it's not random.

As I said, randomness means you don't get to choose
what the result is, nor do you get to reject a run of
random results just because it doesn't "look right".

PB, I think you're confusing random with pseudorandom.