Re: SIMPLE MINDREADING TEST

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From: Mike Duffy
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:03

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"|-|ercules" <radgray123@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> randc1 = parseInt(Math.random()*c[parseInt(book)]+1); 
> randc2 = parseInt(Math.random()*c[parseInt(book)]+1);

> randv1 = parseInt(Math.random()*v[book*1000 + randc1]+1);
> randv2 = parseInt(Math.random()*v[book*1000 + randc2]+1); 
> 
> (names shortened to fit in included posting)
> 
> It's slightly skewed to select verses from smaller books and
> chapters. 

I'm presuming that you have initialzed array v[] with some sort of 
complicated list containing verse numbers. That is most likely the 
sorce of the problem I told you about in the private "message" appended 
to my secret question. (It ends up displaying "Bad verse / Chapter 
number" or some such phrase - I cannot remember it exactly.)

You should just use a 2 dimensional array. It will be more difficult to 
set up, but much less error-prone.

>> What if I were to download a large list of random values ..
>> instead of picking values "at random" myself?
> 
> Probably, as long as you type in the numbers themselves it seems
> to work, the drop down select list didn't work as it was just a
> random mouse movement. 

But Herc, If I were working from a previously downloaded list, your 
algorithm would treat the choices exactly the same regardless of 
whether or not they were entered by keyboard or by mouse. Anyways, 
wouldn't God make my random mouse movement consistent with the 
channeled choice?

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