2011/3/3 Caio Barros caio.barros@gmail.com
Hey guys, long time since I posted here. I've been trying to think a way to divide a number into random parts. Let me explain myself better: I'm writing a piece where I want 10 chords played during 48 seconds but the duration of each chord should be different. So I'm trying to figure out a way to divide 48 into 10 unequal parts, I think using random numbers should be the best way but the difficulty is to get 10 random numbers wich summed give 48.
take n random numbers and sum them (n1+n2+n3+...=sum) divide 48 by that sum (48/sum=x) multiply each of your n random numbers by x and sum that to get 48 (n1*x + n2*x + n3*x +...=48) gr, Tim
Since I'm not expert at math maybe someone can help me. I want to do this operation with other numbers, therefore a pd patch would be great.
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