I have been messing around a bit with sqrts and sins, in the hope of finding a simple algorithm which generates a random number which is weighted towards one of it''s magnitudes. ie a random number between 1 and 100 which is most likely to be a zero and least likely to be 100. I have had no luck. Any ideas?

Generate a floating point number between 0 and 10 and square it.

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Edited by - Kylotan on March 1, 2002 2:24:50 PM

so simple it is beautiful
thanks