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Math.random() not working in Chrome

See original GitHub issue

Challenge Generate Random Fractions with JavaScript has an issue. User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36. Please describe how to reproduce this issue, and include links to screenshots if possible.

My code:

function myFunction() {

  // Only change code below this line.

  return Math.random();

  // Only change code above this line.
}

not working in Google Chrome but worked fine in Safari

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

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vlory73commented, Apr 2, 2016

it just seemed that Math.random() wasn’t doing anything.

i was writing “return Math.random();” and nothing happened. Went to Safari and I was able to finish the exercise.

On 02 Apr 2016, at 19:42, Eric Leung notifications@github.com wrote:

@vlory73 https://github.com/vlory73 can you give more details on what kind of errors are you getting? Or like how did you find out it was not working on Chrome?

— You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp/issues/7859#issuecomment-204764646

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vlory73commented, May 19, 2017

@vekatobias maybe the code is wrong. I probably would do it differently today. But today I have substantial more experience than back then. Also, the intended solution of the exercise was this. In the end, it boils down to Safari working, whereas Chrome did not. I don’t mind that this is not addressed. In fact, I’m happy that raising it already helped a couple of people .

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