From: ckeenan AT scsn DOT net (Chris)
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Subject: Re: Random numbers/George
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 09:00:34 GMT
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Here is a bit of code from C for Dummies.  The book is terrible in
most parts, but this is a nice llittle thing it did.  It demonstrates
how to go about generating random numbers using the computers time.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

int rnd(int range);
int seedrnd(void);

void main(void)
{
	int x;
	seedrnd();
	for (x=o;x<100;x++)
		printf("%i\t",rnd(10));
}

int rnd(int range)
{
	int r;
	r=rand()%range;
	return(r);
}

void seedrnd(void)
{
	srand((unsigned)time(NULL));
}



On Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:14:47 -0400, "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
wrote:

>Alan Wilson wrote:
> 
>> It sounds like to me that DJGPP doesnt have a truly random generator > then.
>> "Informal" random numbers are nice but it would be better if we could
>> generate truly random numbers where the frequency of all numbers were > the same...
>
>i guess ignorance is indeed bliss.
>
>this has nothing to do with DJGPP. as has been pointed out very clearly
>in previous responses to you, all computer generated random numbers are
>pseudo-random. (by the way, the only random distribution is _not_ the
>unifrom distribution.)
>
> -- Sinan