From: aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: random numbers error in DJGPP
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 18:29:52 GMT
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On Sun, 02 Feb 1997 16:49:24 GMT, "Dennis Moran" <coolio AT coolio9 DOT com> wrote:

>While I haven't started learning C yet (getting a book this afternoon!), in
>QBasic the RND function returns a number between 0 and 1. So to get a
>number between 1 and 100, try rand() * 100 + 1 . If rand() is the same as
>RND then that'll work.

rand() and RND do not work the same way.  rand() returns a number from 0 to
RAND_MAX according to the info file.