From:	bigphil AT solutions DOT mb DOT ca (Mark Phillips)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	rand() or random()
Date:	Tue, 04 Nov 1997 07:02:49 GMT
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Just for the heck of it, say I want to get a random number from 0 to
19.  rand() and random() appear to return numbers from 0 to 2^31.  I
could always do rand() * 20 / 2^31 but there must be a better way.

right?

TIA

mark phillips

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