note 61950 added to function.mt-rand

Quote from the documentation: "If you want a random number between 5 and 15 (inclusive), for example, use mt_rand (5, 15)." Just so that it is clear exactly what this means (because it wasn't for me, or maybe I'm just pedantic ;) ). The number will be "inclusive" of both the 5 and the 15 and all numbers should have an approximately equal number of occurrences. I.E. Running mt_rand(0, 2) 100000 times produced the following for me: Zero occurred 33639 times One occurred 33132 times Two occurred 33229 times Other runs also produced nearly equal results. The code used for the tests: <?php $zero = $one = $two = $other = 0; $iterations = 100000; $zeroPadStr = '%0'. strlen($iterations) .'d'; echo 'Results from '. $iterations .' "mt_rand(0, 2)" executions...'."<br>\n<br>\n"; for($i=0; $i<$iterations; $i++){ $randNum = mt_rand(0, 2); echo 'Test #'. sprintf($zeroPadStr, $i+1) .':&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'. $randNum ."<br>\n"; switch ($randNum){ case 0: $zero++; break; case 1: $one++; break; case 2: $two++; break; default: $other++; } } echo "<br>\nZero occurred ". $zero .' times'; echo "<br>\nOne occurred ". $one .' times'; echo "<br>\nTwo occurred ". $two .' times'; if($other) echo "<br>\nNumber of other values = ". $other; ?> ---- Server IP: 203.16.234.19 Probable Submitter: 202.89.174.242 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-rand.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+61950 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61950&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61950&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61950&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61950&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61950&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61950&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61950&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+61950&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php