Creating random numbers with no duplicates

Question

In this case, the MAX is only 5, so I could check the duplicates one by one, but how could I do this in a simpler way? For example, what if the MAX has a value of 20? Thanks

Answer 1

Following code create a sequence random number between [1,m] that was not generated before.

public class NewClass {

    public List keys = new ArrayList();

    public int rand(int m) {
        int n = (int) (Math.random() * m + 1);
        if (!keys.contains(n)) {
            keys.add(n);
            return n;
        } else {
            return rand(m);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int m = 4;
        NewClass ne = new NewClass();
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
            System.out.println(ne.rand(m));
        }
        System.out.println("list: " + ne.keys);
    }
}