From:	"Martin Peach" <martin AT loplop DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Random Numbers
Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:12:21 -0500
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>    randomnumber = (random() % 79) + 1;
This won't be good enough for lottery applications and such unless the
largest possible number returned by random() is an integral multiple of 79,
otherwise 79 won't occur as often as the other numbers. You'll have to scale
the numbers first using floating point math
(random()*79/_THE_LARGEST_RANDOM_NUMBER) and then round to integer, being
very careful how your rounding function works and the adding your offset of
1 if you don't want any zeros.
\/\/\/*= Martin

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