Get a Random Array Item with JavaScript / / No Comments JavaScript Arrays are probably my favorite primitive in JavaScript. You can do all sorts of awesome things with arrays: get unique values, clone them, empty them, etc. What about getting a random value from an array? To get a random item from an array, you can employ Math.random: const arr = [ "one", "two", "three", "four", "tell", "me", "that", "you", "love", "me", "more" ]; const random1 = arr[(Math.floor(Math.random() * (arr.length)))] const random2 = arr[(Math.floor(Math.random() * (arr.length)))] const random3 = arr[(Math.floor(Math.random() * (arr.length)))] const random4 = arr[(Math.floor(Math.random() * (arr.length)))] console.log(random1,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Array, Item, JavaScript, Random
V8 Javascript Fixes (Horrible!) Random Number Generator – Hackaday / / No Comments Hackaday V8 Javascript Fixes (Horrible!) Random Number GeneratorHackadayTo quantify the above observations, the official V8 Javascript post that I linked above notes that the coverage is only 232 values out of the possible 252 uniformly-distributed values that a 64-bit float can represent. This is a huge failure of the …and more » JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Fixes, Generator, Hackaday, Horrible, JavaScript, Number, Random