From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
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Subject: Re: Random interger numbers
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:56:55 GMT
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"Nathan Cournia" <nac2b AT frank DOT mtsu DOT edu> wrote:

>What I need is a function that will act as a (n) sided dice.

rand() returns an integer between 0 and RAND_MAX so use the mod (%)
operator.
eg.
    return rand()%n
will return a number between 0 and n-1.

David.


David Vrabel  d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk
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