Manuals/calci/RAND

RAND()

Description

This function gives the real numbers, circulated in a uniformed way.
The random numbers generate a sequence of numbers which is lying between 0 and 1.
The generated random numbers are changing each time of the calculation.
To find the random real number between Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a} and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle b} , we can use RAND()*(b-a)+a.
Suppose we want to keep the same rand numbers for calculation, we can enter =RAND() in the formula bar.