Re: random/3 problems?

Dave Sworin wrote:
> In gprolog 1.3.1 when I run random/3 with the call below I get integers.
> random(1.0,10.0,RANDOM_NUMBER).
> The 1.3.1 manual says that if both Base and Max are integers
> then Number will be an integer.  I assumed this mean an integer
> as determined by integer/1 built-in Prolog predicate.  ???
> The work-around is easy enough with random/1 so this is not critical.

There is no bug here, 1.0 is not a Prolog integer.
>  
> I also found the following calls to random/3 return the same random number:
> :- randomize,random(1,10,M),randomize,random(1,10,N).  M and N are
> the same.  This was only tested so far on a very old Fedora 2 platform,
> Pentium III and I have not had a chance to try it on a more recent version
> of Linux, but it doesn't seem right.  The actual calls where in two(2)
> different goals, not right after each other, as shown above.

This is clearly a bug, thank you for the report.

Daniel


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