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minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 days agoThe chance is actually 1 in 7 because both 0 and 6 are included in the randInt() range.
minus-squarer00ty@kbin.lifelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoOh right. I thought it might work the same as range etc in python, where is does one less than you specify… Coming from, well every other language this really threw me off on my first python excursion.
minus-squareshape_warrior_t@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoYou can get the exclusive behaviour with random.randrange. (Relevant Stack Overflow question with a somewhat interesting answer)
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoAny language… except MATLAB. Fuck MATLAB. (Their arrays even start at 1, what the fuck?!)
minus-squarewheezy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoLua starts at 1 too. It’s infuriating. I believe for the same historical reason Matlab does. Both meant for non CS people.
The chance is actually 1 in 7 because both 0 and 6 are included in the
randInt()range.Oh right. I thought it might work the same as range etc in python, where is does one less than you specify… Coming from, well every other language this really threw me off on my first python excursion.
You can get the exclusive behaviour with
random.randrange. (Relevant Stack Overflow question with a somewhat interesting answer)Any language… except MATLAB. Fuck MATLAB.
(Their arrays even start at 1, what the fuck?!)
Lua starts at 1 too. It’s infuriating. I believe for the same historical reason Matlab does.
Both meant for non CS people.