(b-a+1)-sided die
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What does "(b-a+1)-sided die" mean?
"You may imagine RANDOM as rolling (b-a+1)-sided die to obtain its output.(In practice, most programming environments offer a pseudorandom-number generator: a deterministic algorithm returning numbers that “look” statistically random.)"
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A "die" normally has six sides, or faces (a cube with the numbers one to six marked on the faces, which, when rolled, produces a "random" number from one to six). This is extended to the idea of a die with b-a +1 sides (even if a physical one could not be made), which will produce a random number from a to b (I imagine). It doesn't matter here, but note how b - a +1 is correctly written, with italics and a proper minus sign rather than a hyphen.
- A "die" normally has six sides, or faces (a cube with the numbers one to six marked on the faces, which, when rolled, produces a "random" number from one to six).
- This is extended to the idea of a die with b-a +1 sides (even if a physical one could not be made), which will produce a random number from a to b (I imagine).
- It doesn't matter here, but note how b - a +1 is correctly written, with italics and a proper minus sign rather than a hyphen.
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A "die" normally has six sides, or faces (a cube with the numbers one to six marked on the faces, which, when rolled, produces a "random" number from one to six). This is extended to the idea of a die with b-a+1 sides (even if a physical one could not be made), which will produce a random number from a to b (I imagine).
It doesn't matter here, but note how b-
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