Generating uniformly distributed random numbers

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Hello everybody,

I need help on how to generate uniformly distributed random numbers in MQL5. I know that for MQL4 there exists a function  mathinrangerandom that does this job, is there anythig equivalent for MQL5?

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hardhu:

Hello everybody,

I need help on how to generate uniformly distributed random numbers in MQL5. I know that for MQL4 there exists a function  mathinrangerandom that does this job, is there anythig equivalent for MQL5?

You can use the mql4 code of MathInRangeRandom, it works exactly the same with mql5.
 
angevoyageur:
You can use the mql4 code of MathInRangeRandom, it works exactly the same with mql5.
Thanks a lot for your answer. Have you also any suggestion in the case the task is to generate random integer numbers in a specific range?
 
hardhu:
Thanks a lot for your answer. Have you also any suggestion in the case the task is to generate random integer numbers in a specific range?
Modify the MathInRangeRandom() function to return an integer.
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