absrand

Get a floating point random number, in the range of 0…1.

float absrand <void>

None.

A floating-point random number, in the range of 0…1.

// write random number to event log 10 times
int i
set i 0
do
  echo <zs:absrand>
  incr i
while <zs:islt i 10>

… the output of which is written to the event log by echo as:

0.875973
0.726676
0.955901
0.925718
0.539354
0.142338
0.462081
0.235328
0.862239
0.209601

None.

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