Message-ID: <392D5391.E87DD3DE@earthlink.net> From: Martin Ambuhl Organization: Nocturnal Aviation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Random numbers References: <392CB951 DOT 34B432E6 AT chemistry DOT uq DOT edu DOT au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 16:22:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.23.128.220 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT earthlink DOT net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 959271752 63.23.128.220 (Thu, 25 May 2000 09:22:32 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:22:32 PDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Chris Miller wrote: > If RAND_MAX is set to 100, then a call to rand() should return an > integer between 0 and 100. However, on my computer, a call to rand() > generates a number between what appears to be hundreds of millions and > 0, even with RAND_MAX set to 100. RAND_MAX is not for you to set. It reports to you the limit of values generated by rand() is. One way to use it is: #include int foo(int limit) { return limit*(rand()/(1.+RAND_MAX)); } -- Martin Ambuhl mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Adams A thick skin is a gift from God. - Konrad Adenauer