From:	murray AT cdrom DOT com (Murray Stokely)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	random #'s
Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:09:01 GMT
Organization:	ACiD Productions
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   Whats the best way to generate a random number from 0 to 500?  I
tried the x=random(500) (borland way) and i got some huge number.
After reading up on it I found out that random() always returns a #
between 0 and MAX_INT_SIZE how do i create a much smaller random #?

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