FRandom ( )
Returns a random positive floating-point value up to, but not including, 1.0.
Parameters
No Parameters
Returns
| VALUE(FLOAT) | A random floating-point value. |
What It Does
This function returns a random floating-point value from 0.0 up to (but not including) 1.0.
Example
NOTE: The following code will return different values every time it is executed!
Random Function Examples
world
{
start()
{
local a;
a = 10;
textln("Generating " + a + " integers from 0 to 9:");
while (a > 0)
{
textln(irandom(10));
a = a - 1;
}
textln("");
a = 10;
textln("Generating " + a + " floats from [0.0, 1.0):");
while (a > 0)
{
textln(frandom());
a = a - 1;
}
textln("");
a = 10;
textln("Generating " + a + " Gaussian floats, mean 0, std. dev. 1:");
while (a > 0)
{
textln(grandom(0, 1));
a = a - 1;
}
quit;
}
}
See Also
IRandom() — Returns a random integer value.
GRandom() — Returns a random floating-point value with Gaussian distribution.
Additional Technical Notes
Authors can expect the distribution of this random number generator to be uniform.
The method of generating random numbers is up to the TAME implementation (Java, JS, etc.), and the generator has not been standardized, yet.
There is currently no way to seed the random number generator for testing purposes, at the time of this writing.