# Need help making random numbers
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-random-numbers/186530
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 22, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-random-numbers/186530 "2006-04-22T00:32:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kurth](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kurth)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-random-numbers/186530/1 "2006-04-22T00:32:38Z")
I’m new to flash and i need to(by clicking a button) generate numbers between 1 and 10. I’ve seen other postings to do similar things such as this, but where would i put the action script, on the button? And what would be the action script for my dilemma?
If you could help me i’d really appreciate it!
thanx
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### Author:  [@flextnet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flextnet)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-random-numbers/186530/2 "2006-04-22T02:18:28Z")
You could put it on the button… let’s say you want to display the random number in a text field called ‘myNum’ on the main timeline:
on (press)
{
\_root.myNum.text = Math.floor(Math.random() \* 10) + 1;
}
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### Author:  [@kurth](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kurth)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-random-numbers/186530/3 "2006-04-25T03:59:02Z")
Thanx, i got it to work.
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### Author:  [@MichaelxxOA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MichaelxxOA)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-making-random-numbers/186530/4 "2006-04-25T07:13:44Z")
You could also put together a method that will return a random float within a given range…
```auto
trace( randomRange(1, 10) );
function randomRange( min:Number, max:Number ) : Number
{
return (Math.random() * (max-min)) + min;
}
```
That should do it, you can also choose whether you want it rounded or not…
TakeCare
\_Michael