Review Request: Convenience KRandom methods

[Ivan Cukic]

> On 2010-08-13 11:03:31, Ivan Cukic wrote:
> > trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/util/krandom.cpp, line 55
> > <http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4992/diff/3/?file=33701#file33701line55>
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> >     As far as the % goes, I'd say it is ok (apart from previous comments)

My mistake, it is not :)

Imagine the following:
random() gives from 0 to 10
min = 0
max = 7

this function would give priority to 0 1 and 2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2


- Ivan


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On 2010-08-12 13:40:52, Sebastian Trueg wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-08-12 13:40:52)
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> Review request for kdelibs.
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> Summary
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> The KRandom namespace is quite useful. However, applications need to be full of code snippets that calculate a random number in a range. IMHO it makes perfect sense to do this once in the library. Thus, I am proposing this patch to introduce two methods providing random numbers from a range.
> Feel free to improve the implementation. :)
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> Diffs
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>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/util/krandom.h 1162164 
>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/util/krandom.cpp 1162164 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4992/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Sebastian
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