Re: Random often fails to return a result
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- Subject: [mg30530] Re: Random often fails to return a result
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:54:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Todd,
Random[Integer,n] gives integers between 0 and 1, and, for example
{1,2,3}[[0]]
List
To avoid this use Random[Integer,{1,n}], which gives integers between 1 and
n.
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Allan
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"Todd Flach" <Todd.Flach at dnv.com> wrote in message
news:9m6taj$l8a$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> I have a non-repeatable error that I wonder if someone can explain. I
> am using Random to extract elements of three lists. The Table command
> shows essentially how I do this. The output looks OK except sublist 9
> has an element called List instead of returning a value. This
> extraction error is occurring randomly. I have examined the three
> lists to check if there are any "holes". There are no holes.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
>
> Table[{starts[[Random[Integer, 100]]], investmentEnds[[Random[Integer,
> 100]]],
> investmentLevels[[Random[Integer, 100]]]}, {10} ]
>
> {{1.16922, 2.25868, 8.36433}, {2.10013, 5.63926, 8.81981}, {3.85993,
> 3.03134,
> 3.51252}, {0.0660932, 2.43429, 9.08009}, {0.547191, 2.05618,
> 10.5471}, {0.512352, 0.868572, 11.7632}, {0.223057, 5.59492,
> 4.31098}, {2.52853, 2.85432, 8.77673}, {3.85993, 2.25868,
> List}, {0.179792, 1.03656, 9.36414}}
>