Factor that creates a random number within a specified interval with a seed

[abwillingham]

How would one create a random integer between MIN and MAX?

This almost works if I could lop off the decimal portion, like python’s int() does.

@rand:(Random * (MAX - MIN) + 1)

for example where MAX = 5 and MIN = 1 would give me a random number between 1 and 5

But even this isn’t really right because it would only very rarely give me 5, only when Random() returned a 1.

Thanks
Tony

Edit:
I just found this thread from Marco that I think does what I am trying to do.

Testing robustness with the Random function

There’s been a lot of talk about robustness test, Monte Carlo sims, etc. Has anybody tried using the Random function in a buy Rule ? For example in a 10 stock simulation simply add this Buy Rule: Random < 0.9 This rule will throw out 1 rec out of 10 on average and produce different results every time the sim is run. See the image below. It’s an Optimizer run that has exactly the same parameters that is basically generating a Montecarlo-ish output. Annual returns range from 25-33%, DDowns fro…

But I am still curious if a random int can be generated.