From: Jerzy DOT Witkowski AT ii DOT uni DOT wroc DOT pl (Jerzy Witkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: a randomize function for DJGPP?
Date: 10 Mar 1997 09:44:59 +0100
Organization: University of Wroclaw
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In article <E6so1o DOT AI AT boss DOT cs DOT ohiou DOT edu>
cigna AT helios DOT phy DOT OhioU DOT Edu (Dave Cigna) writes: 

> >: The best way to get get random numbers uniformly distributed from
> >: 0 to X-1 is to use:
> >
> >:   n = ((double)random() / RAND_MAX) * X;

RAND_MAX should be used with rand() function.
MAXINT should be used with random() function.
To get integer random number from 0 to X-1 you could use
(random()%X).  
To get real random number from [0,1) you could use
((double)random()/((double)MAXINT+1.0)) (multiply it by X in your
case). 

Hope this helps,
-- 
Jerzy Witkowski     <Jerzy DOT Witkowski AT ii DOT uni DOT wroc DOT pl>          o       o

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