The task is …
to generate a random number between any two interger unsigned numbers. Let’s assume we’ve two numbers ‘a’ and ‘b’, where b > a. (I don’t count the case with b==a, cause it seems to be pretty strange!). The formula should be like that:
Math.random() * (b-a+1) + a
Looks very nice, but why is that?
because simply by using Math.random() * a gives a random between 0 and a-1. With the expresion (b-a+1) gives a random number between 0 and (b-a+1) and than by adding the value of a we’ve the number between a and b.
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