Programming question

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:14 pm

You want something to happen one out of a thousand times.

Would you do this:

foobar = random(10000)
if foobar > 9990

Or this?

foobar = random(1000)
if foobar =1000

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 4:50 am

Statistically I think they're the same. I assume the second (1/1000) requires less cycles, but not possibly enough to make a difference in modern systems.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 5:22 am

foobar = random(1000)
if foobar = 69

huhhhuhu

EDIT: In most languages "if foobar = 1000", as you had it, wouldn't work, because in most languages "random(1000)" would return a number from 0 to 999.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 5:48 am

pinback wrote:foobar = random(1000)
if foobar = 69

huhhhuhu

EDIT: In most languages "if foobar = 1000", as you had it, wouldn't work, because in most languages "random(1000)" would return a number from 0 to 999.

Thanks. Not in Hugo it doesn't, Hugo is smart enough to interpret that how I wrote it, and that was what I was writing in before HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 6:55 am

I prefer floating point for this, just so I can write "0.1" to mean 0.1%. Too bad Hugo doesn't have FP.

Wouldn't it fun to do Bitcoin mining in Hugo? :P