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Index › Programming Questions & Help › Syntax Questions › random(int,int) not producing random

functionform YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 9	random(int,int) not producing random? Aug 20th, 2006, 10:18am   did i miss something? void setup() { } void draw() {  for(int i=0; i<100; i++) {    float r = random(50, -50);    println ("r " + r);    stroke(r*5);    line(50, i, 50+r, i);  } } this code doesn't produce a random number for me.  it writes 50.   this is v 115, on windows.

d3 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 33	Re: random(int,int) not producing random? Reply #1 - Aug 20th, 2006, 11:06am   the left value must be smaller than the right for this method to work. i think this fact is worth stating in the reference or even better, the method can be changed to find the smallest value itself. Code: float myLow = min(value1, value2); float myHigh = max(value1, value2);

functionform YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 9	Re: random(int,int) not producing random? Reply #2 - Aug 20th, 2006, 11:16pm   silly me, i knew i was missing something since i saw no other reports/bugs.  thanks.