Get a random number

First of all I want to congratulate the developers of construction and this beautiful community!

I have a small problem that bothers me really, I'd get a random number between -5 and 5, is this possible? The "get a random number" fonction does apperence as to draw a between 0 and XXX.

Thank you in advance for your help! (and sorry for my english.)

How about: random(10) - 5. Would that work?

-5+random(10) is what I use, it's the same as shadowlord posted, just reads better for me.

Thank you very much, it's perfect !

clamp(normalrandom(0,5),-5,5)

I use 5-Random(11) for cases like this.

I use 5-Random(11) for cases like this.

And it is good that you do so, because random(integer) returns floor(random), or in other words:

random(10) produces a number greater than 0 and less than 10 (e.g. 0.024 or 9.8453) and returns it rounded down to the nearest integer (0.024 will be returned as 0, 9.8453 as 9)

As a result, random(10) will return one of 10 numbers ranging from 0 to 9.

-5 + random(10) would be -5 + [0, 9] => [-5, 4]

random(10) - 5 would be [0, 9] - 5 => [-5, 4]

to reach the full range of [-5, 5] (which is 11 numbers) you need random(11) (which returns in a range of 11 numbers from 0 to 10):

5 - random(11) would be 5 - [0, 10] => [5, -5]

random(11) - 5 would be [0, 10] - 5 => [-5, 5]

-5 + random(11) would be -5 + [0, 10] => [-5, 5]

The order doesn't make a difference, so use whatever looks good to you, just make sure the full range is covered <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Thank you for this clarification!

How to randomly generate a whole number?

Hi matcon, here's for a random integer (whole number): int(random(10))

Hi matcon, here's for a random integer (whole number): int(random(10))fqm@Jayjay

It doesn't hurt to do it that way, but it isn't needed. CC automatically returns a number based on the input. When using an integer the return value will be an integer also, when using a float the return value will be a float.

random(10) will return an integer in the range [0, 9] -> 0, 1, 2, ..., 8, 9

random(10.0) will return a float -> 0.015, 3.4127843, 7.1095284, etc.

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tulamide, ah cool, thanks for sharing that <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />