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From: | Damian Yerrick <DELCAPSyerricde AT pineight DOT 8mSOFTWARE DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: rand and random |
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NNTP-Posting-Date: | Tue, 02 Nov 1999 06:51:04 GMT |
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Date: | Tue, 02 Nov 1999 06:51:05 GMT |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:08:42 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote: > > > rand() will give a number between 0 and 32,767. > > Not true; please try to check your advice before posting. > > `rand' returns a random integer between 0 and RAND_MAX. The latter is > defined on stdlib.h, and is much larger than 32K. I thought some C standard defined rand() as #define RAND_MAX 0x7fff int rand(void) { mySeed = (mySeed * 1103515245) + 12345; return (mySeed & 0x7fff0000) >> 16; } Maybe I misunderstood the standard, or maybe the translation (into plain English) was wrong... :-( -- Damian Yerrick Visit my web site: http://yerricde.spedia.net/
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