Question

I am using an internal language in my company and they only have Random() that returns a float between 0 and 1.

I need to port a piece of C++ code that use rand():

int b = rand() % (i+1);

I looked at the docs, but not sure how I can use my Random() to generate a number between 0 and i+1 which is what the above code does, right?

I tried multiplying i+1 with Random() but didn’t get the same results, that’s why I am not sure if what I am doing is correct.

I expect difference between the results due to different random functions, but still I want to be sure I am translating it correctly.

Answer 1

You need to multiply Random() with i and not i+1.

C++ rand() returns an integer between 0 and RAND_MAX but your Random() returns a float between 0 and 1, so multiplying the output of Random() with i and taking the integer portion of the result will give you an integer in [0,i] which is what rand() %(i+1) gives.