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[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

private["_min", "_max", "_mid", "_target", "_kit"];
_target = random(_sum);
_min = 0; _max = count _array -1;

while { _min != _max-1 } do {
   _mid = floor (_min + (_max - _min) / 2);
   if ( (_array select _mid select 0) <= _target )
      then { _min = _mid }
      else { _max = _mid };
};

Does a binary search through an array and finds the first element with a value greater than a random target at index 0.

This is a part of a script that chooses a random set of items to put in a supply box where each item set can have a weight assigned to it based on how valuable the items are (higher weight means more common)

[Pandademic]

what language is that?

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

SQF :D