Why does Random.nextInt() generating negative numbers?

As mentioned in the documentation, Random.nextInt() should return a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value between 0 (inclusive) and n (exclusive), and n must be positive. This means that we shouldn't expect any negative random number as an outcome. However, the fact is that when I was implementing this method to my program, negative numbers was generated. Why is it so? And how do I fix this problem if I need only positive random integers? Thanx!

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Hi
Thank you for reading my post
i think my sequence generate negative numbers , is it possible ?or somewhere in my application is incorrect ?
CREATE SEQUENCE "HR"."GLOB_SEQ" MINVALUE 1 MAXVALUE 999999999999999999999999999 INCREMENT BY 1 START WITH 5 NOCACHE ORDER NOCYCLE ;is there anything that i made wrong which caused the negative numbers in my edit box ?
type of my category_ID is number.
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Generally speaking yes you can generate negative numbers:
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SQL> /
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NEXTVAL
1
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-08004: sequence SEQ1.NEXTVAL goes below MINVALUE and cannot be instantiated
SQL>
So most probably someone simply inserted a row with negative values knowing that they'll never be in conflict with sequence generated values, or your code is buggy :)
Generally for surrogate keys (assuming this is your case) you don't care what values they have.
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http://www.gplivna.eu

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