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Gambling with Lain (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by maris@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The chance is actually 1 in 7 because both 0 and 6 are included in the randInt() range.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Any language... except MATLAB. Fuck MATLAB.

(Their arrays even start at 1, what the fuck?!)

[–] shape_warrior_t@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago

You can get the exclusive behaviour with random.randrange. (Relevant Stack Overflow question with a somewhat interesting answer)