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pickrand - return a random choice from a specified set of numbers

value = pickrand(number1 [, number2, ... numberN ])

Parameters inside the [brackets] are optional.

Call pickrand to choose randomly among several numbers that you specify as its arguments.

It's a good idea to call srand once to seed the random number generator before using pickrand. Otherwise, a seed of 1 will be used.

number1, number2, ... numberN

There can be any number of numerical arguments to pickrand, as long as there is at least one.

One of the arguments to pickrand, selected randomly.

   srand(1)
   for (i = 0; i < 10; i = i + 1) {
      pitch = pickrand(8.00, 8.02, 8.04, 8.05, 8.07, 8.09, 8.11)
      print(pitch)
   }

prints 10 pitches from a C major scale, selected randomly. There's no guarantee that this will print each of the arguments at least once. Use the spray mechanism for that (spray_init, get_spray).

irand, srand, trand, random, rand, pickwrand, spray_init, get_spray, maketable("random")