From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Random interger numbers
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 01:00:15 -0800
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S. M. Halloran wrote:

> Try this one out:
> 
>      return (rand() % n);
> 
> I think it works almost every time.

Most of the time?  One time out of every n, specifically.

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