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dezza · May 31st, 2005, 8:47 AM

http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/pytho...h/chap09.htm#4

I am doing this tutorial, but when it comes to the exercise in this part 9.4 I'm stuck, I do not understand the high and low thing, what does he mean with that?

Quote:

To generate a random number between 0.0 and an upper bound like high, multiply x by high.

As an exercise, generate a random number between low and high.

Ooble · May 31st, 2005, 9:42 AM

High and Low are the highest and lowest numbers that the random number function can generate. random.random()'s default high and low are 1 and 0 respectively. Therefore, to generate a different high, you multiply by the high, and to generate a different low, you add the low.

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Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	High and Low are the highest and lowest numbers that the random number function can generate. random.random()'s default high and low are 1 and 0 respectively. Therefore, to generate a different high, you multiply by the high, and to generate a different low, you add the low. __________________ Me :: You :: Them

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Hard understanding part of tutorial