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Skewing random numbers towards 0

29th May 2006 11:44 | Comments Off
Categories: Coding, HowTo

A quick way to skew random numbers towards 0 is to raise them to some powers - the higher the power, the higher the skew.

var num:Number = Math.pow( Math.random(), 2 );

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