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Parameters: lowerBound: Int, upperBound: Int
Lower and upper bounds for the random number
Returns: Returns a randomly generated integer within the specified bounds.
The function utilizes Swift's built-in functions to generate a random number (either integer or float). It produces an unpredictable number every time it's called.
Hello to all you programmers out there! In this blog post, we will walk you through how to program a function to generate random numbers in Swift. Our step-by-step guide will ensure that you can follow along easily. Sit back, relax, and let's dive into some coding.
The first thing we need to do is to import the Swift standard library, which gives us access to the random number generator functions.
import Swift
Let's start by defining the function generateRandomNumber. This function doesn't take any arguments.
func generateRandomNumber() {
}
Now, we will generate the random number. Swift has a built-in function for this, called random(in:). This function generates a random number from a given range.
Inside generateRandomNumber we can use it to get a random number from 0 to 100.
func generateRandomNumber() {
let randomNumber = Int.random(in: 0..<100)
}
We want our function to return the generated random number, so we need to declare that in the function definition and return the number at the end of the function.
func generateRandomNumber() -> Int {
let randomNumber = Int.random(in: 0..<100)
return randomNumber
}
Finally, we can test our function by calling it and printing the generated random number.
print(generateRandomNumber())
This will print a random number from 0 to 99 each time you run the code.
Random number generation is a common task in programming. Swift provides a built-in function for this, making it very easy to generate random numbers in a given range. The complete code to generate a random number between 0 and 99 in Swift is:
import Swift
func generateRandomNumber() -> Int {
let randomNumber = Int.random(in: 0..<100)
return randomNumber
}
print(generateRandomNumber())
The function uses the concept of pseudo-random number generation technique, where the numbers produced follow a certain statistical distribution in a specific sequence. However, they are not genuinely random because they are determined by a small set of initial values.
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