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  • April 29, 2013 at 6:24 am

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    Cindy Conway-312336 (4/26/2013)

    The simple update statement you listed is great too, but it looses the ability to specify a lower and upper range to the random numbers.

    Thanks for the feedback, Cindy. However, not quite true on the upper and lower range of random numbers (integers, in this case). It uses the same basic formula that a lot of random number generators use to specify the domain to be returned. If you look carefully at the function, it takes min and max values just like your CLR function does.

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