[OpenSCAD] round(rands)

[Giles Bathgate]

Chris

rands returns a vector (list) of random numbers even though you are
telling it to return one random number in the list.

you need to do:

list=rands(2,10,1,6747);

num1=list[0];

etc...

Regards

Giles

On 16 July 2012 21:12, Chris Thompson <eagleapex at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't round a random number.
>
>         num1 = rands(2,10,1,6747);
>         num2 = 9.58674394;
>         num3 = round(num1);
>         num4 = round(num2);
>     echo(num1);
>     echo(num2);
>     echo(num3);
>     echo(num4);
>
> this provides:
> ECHO: [2.422436106950045]
> ECHO: 9.58674394
> ECHO: undef
> ECHO: 10
>
> I don't see anything wrong with trying to get a random integer with
> this method. Is this a bug?
>
>
> Chris Thompson, eagleapex.com
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