Date:         Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:24:00 +0100
Reply-To:     John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: how to generate 1 to 100k random numbers without zeros?
Comments: To: Dale McLerran <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM>
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At 20:14 13/09/2010 -0700, Dale McLerran wrote:
>Dan and John are both correct in their arguments.  I was not
>applying the INT function, but rather a ROUND function in
>presenting probabilities.  With ROUND(N*ranuni(seed)), values
>can range from 0 through N.  Probabilities of 0 and N would
>be 1/(2N) and probabilities of integer values between 0 and N
>would be 1/N.  But with the INT(N*ranuni(seed)), values can
>only range from 0 through N-1.  Every integer in that range
>would have probability 1/N.
>Mea culpa,

Thanks for confirming that I wasn't going mad - when you wrote INT, I
thought you meant INT :-)

Kind Regards,


John

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