[erlang-questions] Math pow

[David Sveningsson]

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Hasan Veldstra wrote:
> On 3 Apr 2009, at 13:49PM, Kunthar wrote:
> 
>> New shell R13A:
>>> random:uniform(math:pow(2, 48)).
>> ** exception error: no function clause matching
>> random:uniform(281474976710656.0)
>>
>> Old shell R12B:
>>> random:uniform(math:pow(2, 48)).
>> 44982915740374
>>
>> Any comments?
> 
> A guess – random:uniform does not accept floats anymore?

Correct, it doesn't accept floats any more, but strangely enough still
truncates the input:

- -spec uniform(pos_integer()) -> pos_integer().
uniform(N) when is_integer(N), N >= 1 ->
    trunc(uniform() * N) + 1.



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