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Chris Ward
12,129 PointsHow would you write this in Java?
Ok, as we all know, pseudo-random number generators are just that...pseudo. Their only guarantee for randomness applies to the law of large numbers which you might remember from a discrete math course :-).
Anyway, thinking about this problem in some detail, I came up with an interesting approach (although it is pseudo-code itself):
/*BEGIN (NOT C or C++, though some of the functions might be!)*/
double total = 0.0;
unsigned int selections = 0;
srand(time(NULL));
total += rand() & 255;
selections++;
/*THIS IS WHERE IT GETS WEIRD, AN IMPERATIVE-SQL-LANGUAGE-MARRIAGE*/
do { unsigned int next[8] do next[n = 0..7] = rand() & (unsigned int) (pow(2, n+1) - 1) select next[i = 0..7] where ((total + next[i]) / (selections + 1)) closest to (127.5) as theNextValue; total += theNextValue; selections++; } until (total / selections >= 127.0 && total / selections <= 128.0);
/*OK, STRANGE HYBRID CODE HAS ENDED!*/
Now, my question....how would you code this in Java?
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Chris Ward
12,129 PointsAnd thanks to the mods for fixing this post. I'm used to using the [code] tag which doesn't work here, but I've figured out how to do it now.