Random decimal generation

I want to generate a random decimal for a variable, within a certain range. If I use "rand(0.5)" for example, it regards 0.5 as the minimum and will generate anything from that to "0.999999~infinity" or something like that.

But can I set a RANGE of variance? Like, 0.01 to 0.5, for example? If so, how?

A rand call with no arguments generates a number in the [0;1[ range. (Including 0, excluding 1)

In your example you can then use arithmetics to modify the range.

rand * (0.5-0.01) + 0.01
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or you can also do

rand(50) * 0.01 + 0.01

Thank you both!

For bonus points can you tell us the difference between my and Engr. Adiktuzmiko's code?

Adiktuzmiko's code sets the random value from 1-50 then multiplies it by 0.01 to achieve the decimal.

Yours appears to, as you said, assign a random variable between 0 and 1, and set a multiplier between 0.5 and 0.01.

Is that right...?

EDIT: New question... is there any simple method to round up decimals? Because it looks really weird to display "5.99999999999998" etc...

Bump.


Please see my EDIT in my previous post.

.round

I tried "$game_variables[11].round" and then showed it in a message box, but it still wasn't rounded... what is the right way to do it?

$game_variables[11] = $game_variables[11].round

if that doesn't work the number might be getting truncated at a prior calculation.

Thanks, it worked, but on second thought, this may not be what I want after all.


When displaying a variable in a text box with "\v[x]", is it possible to simply cut off the numbers after the decimal, while allowing them to still exist, just not be visible? If that makes sense.

I think you can do .round(2) for example so it cuts off to 2 decimals

EDIT: Oh wait... I think that was for visual basic... 

Well, if your only concern is showing the decimals on text, you could always remove parts of the text once you convert that real number into a string

Like you can use 

String.index(".")

to find the index of the decimal place, then do

String[0,index+2]

to get a substring up to the decimal + 2 places

so you can do something like

text = $game_variables[number_index].to_s

$game_variables[text_index] = text[0,text.index(".") + 2]

I used two variables coz I assume you need the number value for something so it might be better to leave that variable alone

No, no, it works! :D

Thank you!! :thumbsup-left:

If you only want two decimals do not use the code I gave you. Instead

That was the main difference I wanted you to spot ^_^

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 - Zeriab