On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:12:07AM -0700, arunkumar1111 wrote:
> hi
>
> My inputs is min=(10,10,10,10,10) and max=(100,100,100,100,100)
> total = 300
> i have to generate 5 numbers between min and max and those numbers should
> sum upto total
Hi.
Try the following.
while (1) {
x <- 10 + 250*diff(c(0, sort(runif(4)), 1))
if (all(x <= 100)) break
}
x
[1] 99.32985 77.04346 65.49482 33.98516 24.14672
sum(x)
[1] 300
According to some tests, the average number of repetitions of
the while loop is about 5.
Hope this helps.
Petr Savicky.
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