How do I generate random numbers in Dart?

Question

How do I generate random numbers using Dart?

Answer 1

Just wrote this little class for generating Normal Random numbers... it was a decent starting point for the checking I need to do. (These sets will distribute on a "bell" shaped curve.) The seed will be set randomly, but if you want to be able to re-generate a set you can just pass some specific seed and the same set will generate.

Have fun...

class RandomNormal {
  num     _min, _max,  _sum;
  int     _nEle, _seed, _hLim;
  Random  _random;
  List    _rNAr;

  //getter
  List get randomNumberAr => _rNAr;

  num _randomN() {
    int r0 = _random.nextInt(_hLim);
    int r1 = _random.nextInt(_hLim);
    int r2 = _random.nextInt(_hLim);
    int r3 = _random.nextInt(_hLim);

    num rslt = _min + (r0 + r1 + r2 + r3) / 4000.0;  //Add the OS back in...
    _sum += rslt; //#DEBUG ONLY
    return( rslt );
  }

  RandomNormal(this._nEle, this._min, this._max, [this._seed = null]) {
    if (_seed == null ) {
      Random r = new Random();
      _seed    = r.nextInt(1000);
    }
    _hLim   = (_max - _min).ceil() * 1000;
    _random = new Random(_seed);
    _rNAr   = [];
    _sum    = 0;//#DEBUG ONLY

    h2("RandomNormal with k: ${_nEle}, Seed: ${_seed}, Min: ${_min}, Max: ${_max}");//#DEBUG ONLY
    for(int n = 0; n < _nEle; n++ ){
      num randomN = _randomN();
      //p("randomN  = ${randomN}");
      LIST_add( _rNAr, randomN );
    }

    h3("Mean = ${_sum/_nEle}");//#DEBUG ONLY
  }
}


new RandomNormal(1000, 80, 120);
new RandomNormal(1000, 80, 120);
new RandomNormal(1000, 80, 120);
new RandomNormal(1000, 80, 120);
new RandomNormal(1000, 80, 120);
new RandomNormal(1000, 80, 120);
new RandomNormal(1000, 80, 120);

Then you can just use it like this to check the mean of sets of 1000 nums generated between a low and high limit. The values are stored in the class so they can be accessed after instantiation.

_swarmii