Simulating a 6-faced die in Ada-2005

Question

I have very definitively come across the 'simulating a 6-faced die' (which produces a random integer between 1 and 6, all outcomes are equally probable) in Java, Python, Ruby and Bash. However, I am yet to see a similar program in Ada. Has anyone come across one?

Answer 1

See Random Number Generation (LRM A.5.2) for packages to assist with doing this. Either Ada.Numerics.Float_Random for uniform random number generation (range 0.0 .. 1.0) which you can then scale on your own, or instantiate Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random with a suitable (sub)type (works for d4, d10, d12, and d20s as well!).