From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Random interger numbers
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:58:59 -0800
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Nathan Cournia wrote:

> What I need
> is a function that will act as a (n) sided dice.  Thanks for the help.

Use 

    rand()%n + 1

which will give you a random number betwen 1 and n, inclusive.

Note that pseudorandom number generators tend to be poor in their lower
significant bits, so this is sometimes not an ideal solution.

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