From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: Random numbers
Date: 3 Jun 1997 01:48:18 GMT
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Cesar Scarpini Rabak (csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br) wrote:
: At 11:34 30/05/97 GMT, George Foot wrote:

: >This is just plain wrong, random takes no parameters and returns a number
: >from 0 to MAXINT (over two thousand million).

: For the sake of correctness from 0 to RAND_MAX...

Not according to the docs. They say that rand() returns numbers from 0 to
RAND_MAX inclusive, and random() returns numbers from 0 to MAXINT
inclusive.

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford