note 36663 deleted from function.rand by aidan
| From: | aidan@php.net | Date: | Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:42:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 36663 deleted from function.rand by aidan | ||
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Note Submitter: beantaxi at yahoo dot com
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irt bkreleger -- while that will work, it would be simpler to just do
function NumGen($length)
{
$limit = pow(10, $length);
return rand(0, $limit);
}
Powers (and logs) of 10 are often useful when dealing with number-of-digit problems . . .
- The Bean