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Gambling with Lain (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by maris@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The chance is actually 1 in 7 because both 0 and 6 are included in the randInt() range.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh right. I thought it might work the same as range etc in python, where is does one less than you specify.. Coming from, well every other language this really threw me off on my first python excursion.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any language... except MATLAB. Fuck MATLAB.

(Their arrays even start at 1, what the fuck?!)

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lua starts at 1 too. It's infuriating. I believe for the same historical reason Matlab does.

Both meant for non CS people.