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Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?]

From Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?]
Date 2016-03-05 18:46 +0000
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Brixomatic <brixomatic@yahoo.com> wrote:
>  int nextInt(int origin, int bound) {
>    int n = bound - origin;
>    if (n > 0) {
>      return nextInt(n) + origin;
>    }
>    else {  // range not representable as int
> The else case should come as a surprise for a lot of people.

Why? that's just to account for ranges whose length is greater
than Integer.MAX_VALUE, e.g.:  nextInt(-1, Integer.MAX_VALUE)

They probably could have used "long"s as fallback, tough.

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Libraries for sysadmins? Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 03:33 -0800
  Re: Libraries for sysadmins? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-03-04 11:44 +0000
    Re: Libraries for sysadmins? egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 12:56 +0100
  Re: Libraries for sysadmins? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-03-04 07:43 -0500
  Re: Libraries for sysadmins? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-03-04 18:06 +0100
    Re: Libraries for sysadmins? egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 20:30 +0100
      Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2016-03-05 00:56 +0100
        Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-03-05 12:11 +0100
          Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2016-03-05 16:41 +0100
            Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Brixomatic <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-05 19:20 +0100
              Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-03-05 18:46 +0000
                Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Brixomatic <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-15 19:22 +0100
                Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-03-15 22:30 +0000
            Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-03-05 18:30 +0000
              Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-03-05 13:46 -0500
                Re: Random permutations [was Re: Libraries for sysadmins?] Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-03-05 19:40 +0000
      Re: Libraries for sysadmins? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-03-05 12:10 +0100
    Re: Libraries for sysadmins? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-03-04 21:42 -0500
  Re: Libraries for sysadmins? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-03-04 21:48 -0500

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