From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: random number generator
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Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 2000 06:33:42 GMT
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:41:58 GMT, "tritesnikov"
<tritesnikov AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

>srand(time(0));
>a = rand() % 5;
>
>Error: implicit declaration of function 'int time(...)'

1. The dice formula is
     a = (rand() >> 4) % 6 + 1;
This drops four extremely non-random low-order bits from the returned
pseudorandom value, and then scales the rest between 1 and 6.

2. #include <time.h>

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