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Manish Barik
Courses Plus Student 2,071 PointsHow to set the app in android to randomize the facts to infinity if we keep on adding new facts on a daily basis?
In the video, Ben talks about randomizing facts with a countable number. What if we keep adding news facts to the app on a daily basis (like a news contributor)? Will randomizing the facts to infinity help? If so, how?
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Fahmi Eshaq
3,002 PointsAs per my understanding to your questions, this statement would do it:
int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(facts.length);
J A
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 4,646 PointsIf you have some way of enumerating the number of facts, you can use that number and pass it into the nextInt() function. For example, if you continue to populate the array somehow using a different method, you could just use the length property of all Java arrays. If, for instance, the data comes from a database you can query for the number of facts and use that as your limit.
While there is a value called "infinity" in Java, it doesn't actually correspond to a number since a computer is technically limited to 2^32 - 1 on a 32-bit system.