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#41

:pray: please be activated soon

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#42

So excited, I hope they activate it soon!

#43

Any thoughts on being able to hop to a specific integer or number instantly instead of calling :NextNumber() or :NextInteger() a lot of times? I’m working on a slide generator with different obstacles, some of which require warning signs earlier on in the slide. I’m generating the slide on the fly and I want to know beforehand when certain obstacles should spawn (depending on random values). If I can just hop a few steps forward/backwards at once it would make things a lot more convenient.

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#44

Either tomorrow or early January.

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#45

Call :NextNumber() or :NextInteger() a bunch of times in advance, and store the results to a table. This is probably the fastest way to do it at the moment.

#46

You could just use the noise function for something like that which would be easier. and you likely wouldn’t notice a difference if you “zoom out” enough with it

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#47

In time for Christmas? :smirk:

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#48

“In observance of the gift-giving season”

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#49

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#50

Ehh. Oh. Thanks.

#51

This is now live.

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#52

Question about NextNumber(), technically, does it include the min, and approach the max?

#53

Found a minor quirk:

while wait() do
    local R = Random.new(-tick())
    print(R:NextNumber())
end

will print the same number for one second, until the seed changes.

I think that is expected as it’s not exactly the right way to use it, but…

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#54

Yeah, notice the interval notation:

Closed at min, and open at max, so min <= x < max

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#55

Yeah, the range is [min,max).

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#57

You don’t get the title, hmm?

It’s quite literally random

#58

So in the example:

rng:NextNumber(0, 255)

Does this mean that you will never get 255 as a value?

#59

Since we’re talking about floats, not ints, would it really matter?

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#60

That’s correct, you’ll never hit 255.

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#61

Why not include the end value for NextNumber and make it consistent with how NextInteger works?

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