Bill Allombert on Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:03:05 +0200


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Re: ran 3 trials of 100K to check the recovery of a rational number from its decimal


On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 11:05:03PM -0700, American Citizen wrote:
> And somewhat irritatingly, I got a zero from the random(N) function call,
> which resulted in a zero in the denominator, so I had to watch out for that.

You can use random([1,N]) if you need a random number x so that 1<=x<=N.

Cheers,
Bill.